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THE 

SECOND MESSAGE 

OF 

ANNE SIMON 




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RICHARD G. BADGER 

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NOV 19 1920 



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FOREWORD 






The Second Message of Anne Simon would 
seem to be a logical continuation of the contents 
of the first Message, already published. 

The third, fourth and fifth Messages have also 
evolved, and will follow sequentially in book form ; 
each bearing relation to what has preceded ; each of 
about the same length as the first Message; and 
each appearing in facile writing in the short du- 
ration of time of about a month. The Second 
Message began July 11, 1919, and ended a few 
weeks later, on August 7. 

Anne Simon, in her earth-life, possessed an un- 
usual power for the stimulation of fineness and ful- 
fillment in others. She frequently spoke of this 
strange, controlling force. 

The union of my wife and myself was one of 
harmony and understanding, and the bond sensi- 
tive. As two artists, our ideals were happily in- 
terwoven. 

Neither of us were spiritualists, nor did we fre- 
quent mediums. The entire subject seemed of lit- 
tle interest. 

The Writing came strangely. In January, 
1919, I was impelled, through a friend, to experi- 
ment with automatic writing. The results were 
immediate, and two days later the first Mes- 
sage began, with evidently a definite purpose. 

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There was no trance-condition, but the pencil 
wrote without my initiative or will, and I mar- 
velled as this strange subject unfolded. 

It may be that each Message, appearing in 
sequential publication, will create new interest, as 
added testimony of the significance of this docu- 
ment. 

OTTO TORNEY SIMON. 



Washington, D. C, 
October, 1920. 



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JULY llTH, EARLY AFTERNOON. 

My beloved husband! This is I, Anne Simon, 
your loving Wife! I am again filled with the 
higher emanations, influences that come from the 
spirit-souls that have been purified through love 
and beauty until they are nearest to the innermost 
Heart-throb of the Great Source of All-Love 
and Life. This is then the second Message which 
has come to you. It is for the further consider- 
ation of the mortal earth-man, and its spiritual 
significance should reach, even in a larger degree 
than the first Message, the hearts and profoundest 
consciousness of the mortal of the earth-world. 
It is of the greatest importance that such earth- 
beings should awaken and encourage in themselves* 
a greater heart-serenity, a calmer poise, a deeper 
probe into the God-essence within them, the germ 
and central pulsating force of which is love. It 
is for them to become less material, less selfish, 
living more in the future vision of the great 
spiritual finality, which now they so dimly per- 
ceive, that it is but a flickering faith. 



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II 

Mortal man! . . . my beloved earth-brother! 
If he but realized in this early development of 
earth-growth the unfolding of all earthly striving 
and virtue and love ... if he but realized the life 
of the spiritual planes in their relation to follow- 
ing these virtues that God has given to him in 
embryonic smallness, so that by his will and faith 
and striving (when even the full spiritual glory of 
the spiritual places is unperceived) he may de- 
velop strongly to the perfect flower of earth, and 
may form his character and characteristics and 
ideals and loves for the Heavenly places. 



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III 



Around each earth-mortal there are the emana- 
tions which the spirit-souls of spirit-places are 
ever sending. It is for him to throw out the 
"demands" for the earth-virtues, strong, ever 
strong, with a vitalized will; and as he does this, 
the little crevices of his nature open, and the gate- 
ways are there for the ever-waiting emanations. 
This is prayer! I wish to emphasize this in these 
words of the second Message I have sent to you 
for the earth-mortal. These "demands" should be 
ever constant, many times daily (earth term!), 
until they become habit. Such action is the open 
highway for the inflowing and for the strengthen- 
ing of the virtues; and so man reaches to the 
Heavenly places as he yet toils through earth-* 
shadows. 



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IV 

The "demands"! They are the salvation of 
worlds and systems of worlds; but I can only 
speak to my beloved brothers of the earth-world. 
Again, I repeat : This is prayer ! The emanations, 
ever waiting, are reflexively sent from us in the 
spiritual planes; and we receive them from the 
higher spiritual forces and from the Christ- 
Emanations. If mortal man will but ponder on 
their significance, and by strong will and fre- 
quent projection make use of them, he will realize 
the significance of the term "spiritual salvation"; 
for he will more and more be in the state of good- 
ness and love that approximates these conditions 
of the Heavenly places. ... I leave you! 



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JULY llTH, LATER EVENING. 

It is I, Anne Simon! . . . Write! ... I spoke 
of the "demands" to be sent out for those strong 
virtues and characteristics that will prepare the 
mortal for the higher Heavenly places. In the 
first Message I have written of some of these 
traits. To chastity, humility, serenity, reverence, 
courage, kindness, elimination of fear should be 
added tolerance, forgiveness of real or imagined 
wrongs, the "demands" for happiness, for strength 
and health, and for a worldly success that is not 
an absorption of the rights of others. If the 
mortal of the earth-world will throw out these 
demands, as I have told you, with the intense wish 
and strong will, the emanations will flow inward 
and fill the empty places. 



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VI 

And, although I speak of the earth-mortal, the 
higher development of mortals of other worlds and 
systems has been perfected to its higher spiritual 
development through the efficacy and realization 
of the power of asking and demanding. So those 
mortals of higher development than the earth-man 
have advanced to higher stages; and so will the 
earth-man advance as he comes to a more perfect 
realization of what I have told you. Again, I 
send the message: These words come from the 
higher emanations through me, with you again as 
the earth-instrument. They come to the earth- 
mortal for his advancement and happiness, and 
are also an admonition to him, a warning to 
prepare, and the given means for preparation. 



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VII 



JULY llTH, LATER EVENING. 

Again I am with you! ... I write of the 
mortal worlds, other than the earth; each a unit, 
but bound in systems by God's law of progres- 
sion and love. Each is evolving. On each the 
man-type exists, where God has so willed . . . 
not on all mortal planes. Other created types, as 
we know them, exist on some mortal planes . . . 
not on all mortal planes. Some of the latter are 
still in the fiery state, a molten mass of God- 
Energy, in which gestates the God-Love, awaiting 
the time of creation for what will later appear as 
created matter. Others are only . . . wait! . . . 
as empty worlds awaiting the God creative-touches 
of created matter; others have on their surfaces 
primal matter that will evolve into higher crea- 
tion; others have a higher development in some 
forms of creations, and other forms are still in 
primary and elemental development; others have 
the created forms as we know them, animal, vege- 
table, mineral, with man in a higher state than the 
earth-man; others have animal, vegetable, min- 
eral, with man in a lower state than the earth-man. 
The number of worlds and systems in any state of 
development is infinite. I speak of mortal worlds. 

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The earth-man's intelligence and development are 
incapable of understanding the immensity (no 
word!) and stupendous God-scheme of the mortal- 
universe. 



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VIII 

JULY 12TH, MORNING. 

I come again to you! . . . You are receptive! 
. . . We know created life as man, and the ani- 
mal, vegetable and mineral creation. On many of 
the higher planes there are more developed crea- 
tions with higher sensitive development. On some 
of these there are already harmonization and dis- 
cernments, of which the earth-man is unaware. 
Between all created life of these mortal-places 
there are already an understanding and a partial 
intercourse of communication. I have told you on 
the spiritual planes this occurs in a still more 
perfect degree, and is the source of happiness to 
all created things that have finished their mortal 
existences. 

On the higher mortal-planes man is also in a 
higher intuitional state, and understands, to a 
degree, somewhat approximating the conditions 
on the spiritual planes. There is partial inter- 
course through intuitional understanding, and em- 
bryonic emanations are given and received . . . 
embryonic and elementary in contrast to the 
larger and complete emanation- outflow through 
the spiritual planes. So the earth -mortal, as I 
have told you, is developing toward this. There 

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is a higher degree of happiness among the creation 
of the higher mortal-planes, because the veil has 
been partially lifted, and the flickering faith of the 
earth- world has been changed to a higher con- 
viction. 



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As I explain this higher mortal development of 
other mortal-worlds, let the earth-man realize 
that he is tending toward this. This higher intu- 
itional faculty is the sixth sense; and with its use, 
appreciation, and growth, the other senses have 
also become more acute, more prepared to elide 
into the spiritual senses. The sense of taste and 
that of actual touch, of the senses I have men- 
tioned, however, are not of the same value in the 
spiritual world. The sense of taste in the earth- 
man is for the enjoyment of material food for his 
physical body, and its super- stimulation in the 
earth-man often leads to excesses of physical ap- 
petite. So with touch, as of secondary impor- 
tance. While not leading in its stimulation to what 
is physical, it is a sense which is used for mortal 
protection and guidance, and its value on the 
spiritual plane is not significant. 



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X 

Sight, hearing, and the keen sense for perfume 
and fragrance, on the other hand, are significant 
in their increase and spiritual values on the spirit- 
ual planes. So the mortal earth-man of the far 
future will be in a higher state of development 
than is the earth-man of the present time. The 
"passing over" of the latter is an episode in the 
mortal-life of a less developed nature. His higher 
development will be on the spiritual planes. The 
earth-man of future ages (a term only partially 
expressive of the far future) will be of a higher 
spiritual development, will have already sensed the 
higher unfolding of spiritual places while yet on 
mortal planes, and will go to a Mansion and a 
spiritual plane where the spirit-souls are more ad- 
vanced than he who passes from the earth-plane 
at the present time. ... I have told you ! 



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XI 



JULY 13TH, SUNDAY MORNING. 

I am with you! . . . Sunday! . . . An earth- 
day of prayer for the Christian! . . . Prayer 
should be unceasing, and yet the one day of seven 
should be given especially to a higher serenity. 
The emanations from the spirit-planes will then 
have a greater efficacy, and replenish in comple- 
tion the deeper consciousness of mortals. 



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XII 

I have written of the more developed mortal 
planes. The idea of the return of the mortal-soul, 
after it has once passed into the spiritual places, is 
erroneous. A new germ of life is given to each 
new baby of mortal-life. It is fixed by certain 
laws of heredity and a certain absorption from the 
baby, unconsciously, of the emanations; each baby 
differing from another baby in this. The laws of 
heredity do not fix the boundary. Our emana- 
tions make the unusual fluctuations of character- 
istics and talents, sometimes by which one member 
of a family may stand out uniquely from the mem- 
bers of the rest of that family. And so a genius 
sometimes springs into existence as does the iso- 
lated flower, maybe in a dessert-land of desolation 
... a flower of delicacy and fineness, far away 
from others of its kind. The penetration of the 
genius-spirit is alone in its spiritual discernment, 
and moves through the worlds of mortals as in 
alien worlds, contaminated sometimes by earth-fol- 
lies, weaknesses and vices. 



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XIII 

But the inner lamp of God's lighting always 
burns with a steady and serene flame of spiritual 
essence, though clouded frequently by earth-clouds 
and shadows. The genius is earth's crucified one. 
Frequently, so very frequently, the alternations of 
incandescent spirit-perception and the fall to 
temptation of physical needs make the burden of 
a remorse, heavy and pitiless, like that of ponder- 
ous and clanking chains. Habits form that fling 
themselves (as do the tentacles of a great sea- 
monster) about his little lamp, the holy of holies 
in which God abides, and would enclose it with 
crushing, destructive force, with writhing viper- 
fingers. 

The little lamp ever gleams serenely, its flame 
ever pointing steadily toward the spiritual places. 
I have told you such a one (torn by remorse while 
yet enfolding in his encircling arms of tenderness 
the Heavenly essence) comes to us; and our love 
doubly encircles him, because he holds what is 
precious to the spirit-life and to spirit-worlds. 



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XIV 

So the mortal after he has passed into the 
Heavenly places does not return as renewed life. 
His spirit remains in the Heavenly planes and is 
progressing. To return to the physical planes as 
renewed life would be retrogression. The mortal 
is helped by our emanations, and not by a reap- 
pearance of a new-born baby in an identity that 
has once lived on the mortal planes. ... I have 
told you! 



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XV, 



JULY 13th, later. 
I am here, Anne! . . . The mortal souls of 
more advanced worlds than that of earth, besides 
having the added perception of intuitional devel- 
opment, also have a partially opened spiritual 
vision. They perceive, though to a lesser degree 
than those on the spiritual planes, the rise of color- 
emanations from the earth-plane; and so perceive 
a scale of colors and tints unknown to the earth- 
man. They also see, with a partially opened 
spiritual eye, the conditions of the spiritual planes. 
So a deeper conviction pervades the mortals of 
such worlds, and a greater happiness results. The 
happiness and serenity of mortals of these more 
advanced worlds are so far greater than those of 
the earth-man, that the latter would not under- 
stand by the explanation of earth-words. As he 
cannot sense the happiness (the earth-word for 
this is dull like the brown earth-particles!) of the 
higher developed world-mortals, so for him it is 
not possible to sense the radiance, glory, progress 
and life of the supernal spiritual places from 
which this message is reaching you. 



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XVI 

So the earth-man is in greater doubt as to the 
Great Beyond, than the one on the higher de- 
veloped physical-planes. His awakening is all the 
more in greater splendor, God's gift to him for his 
years of mortal doubt. To the mortal of the more 
advanced physical-plane the awakening is partial 
and convincing on that plane. Such a one is 
happy in knowing before the ultimate spiritual 
planes are reached. 



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XVII 

JULY 14TH, MORNING. 

I am here again, waiting for you to write as I 
direct! ... I have explained to you, through my 
spirit knowledge, some of the conditions on the 
mortal-planes of other worlds besides your own. 
As man on these is more advanced, and as there 
already is a certain understanding between him 
and the other created things of his world, and as 
he senses also to a larger degree the conditions of 
the spiritual planes by which come to him a 
greater conviction and higher happiness, so are the 
other objects of God's creation on that plane in a 
more advanced stage . . . the flower is still the 
flower, the stone is still a stone, but the inner 
forces of these creations have advanced. 

They, too, have grown toward the spiritual 
fineness of spiritual planes and places. Their cog- 
nizance and language and life may not be, or seem 
to be, similar to that of man living on their plane. 
Its basic principle, however, is the same God- 
essence which makes for each order of created 
things a particular system of inner life for that 
especial family of created beings . . . each family 
happy in its exclusiveness, and yet reaching out 
into the paths and by-ways of other creation. 

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XVIII 

Thus is the immense diversity of the ways of 
God's universe shown, which always tends toward 
the finality of complete unity. And the gentle 
influence is God's Love, that like a tender, sooth- 
ing hand leads all together in one glorified path- 
way of harmony. Love! . . . As I write the 
word I see you deeply moved! When the world, 
and worlds and systems prostrate themselves be- 
fore Love, there will be complete regeneration 
. . . for God is Love! 

In this my second Message I again send, in all 
encircling tenderness, the thought to earth-mor- 
tals: God is Love! . . . (Deep "isms" and dry 
theologies!) . . . And may the knowledge of love 
enter the human heart of worlds-mortals through 
the gateway of serenity. 



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XIX 

JULY 14TH, LATER MORNING. 

I am here with you! . . . Write! . . . The 
ultimate end of all created life on all mortal- 
worlds and systems of worlds is the spiritualiza- 
tion of its creation. There will come a time (so 
remote that even to the highest intelligence of the 
most advanced creation of the most advanced 
mortal-world it is unthinkable) when each world 
will have received its final blessedness of spiritual 
growth; when those mortals and each creation of 
all worlds and systems will be so in complete 
harmony with spiritual planes, that but a shadowy 
line of demarcation will exist. Each world, as it 
reaches this stage of near elision to the spiritual 
planes, will be taken to the fold of spiritual planes, 
one after the other in its given time; and so 
through God's love, and man's and other creation- 
receptiveness, it will have reached its spiritual per- 
fection. 



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XX 

So will the material worlds, as we know them, 
ultimately become the spiritual planes and places. 
And this is God's law and solution for the gradual 
change of all that is material into its spiritual 
essence, each creation retaining its identity, but 
still further progressing through the spiritual 
planes and places. As I have explained before, 
there is Heavenly peace and serenity, but not 
Heavenly rest. The blessed laws of love and pro- 
gression surround us. 



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XXI 

JULY 15th, morning. 
It is I, Anne, awaiting your readiness for the 
Message! ... I have written, through you, of the 
spiritual awakening through countless space of 
time of the created life of mortal-planes, and its 
eventual blending into the spiritual places. I have 
told you also in the former Message that the 
created life of worlds and worlds-systems must 
have its gradual evolution. This time, however, 
of spiritual arrival may be hastened by the higher 
seeking for those elements of mortal characteris- 
tics, which will tend toward an earth-realization 
of this. The following of such virtues and super- 
nal qualities will lead to a stronger faith and a 
dominant unswerving conviction from which 
emanates the increased happiness. The dread of 
death will disappear. Toil and care will be looked 
on and accepted, not with that hopeless appear- 
ance of the fallen, parched, and shriveled earth- 
fruit; but as a happy discipline that gives to 
character a vertebrae and support, realized as 
necessary, and happily and joyfully accepted as 

such. ^wmmm 



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XXII 

But not only as the man of worlds and systems 
throws out the "demands" do the healing, stimu- 
lating, pinnacle-aspiring emanations flow inward 
to the secret, innermost places of his being; but 
also all other created matter is stimulated to throw 
out its "demands" with the same results for 
spiritual progression. For such creation also has 
its specific system of intelligence, and aspires to 
prepare for the still further development of fine- 
ness on the spiritual planes. Happiness and joy 
of living are experienced in its own conscious- 
ness by each system of created life. And this 
becomes more sensitive and finer on the higher 
mortal-planes than on the earth-plane. On the 
spiritual planes such consciousness and added 
growth are but a sequential continuance . . . and 
so onward, ever higher, ever finer, through the 
spiritual development on progressive spirit-planes, 
until they become a part of the great Central 
Essence of God's Love and Energy. 



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XXIII 

JULY 15th, morning, later. 
Do not fear! . . . Only passive! ... I will 
convey through this part of the Message the 
element, more than any other, that keeps the 
spiritual consciousness of the earth-man clouded, 
and also of those mortals that live on mortal worlds 
in a near similarity of development to the earth- 
world. Mortals of the higher mortal-worlds have 
partially evolved. . . . Wait and rest! . . . 



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XXIV 

The element of which I now write is the act of 
mortal procreation, of bringing into the world the 
new babyhood that shall be the little link that may 
have in its being a little more of the possibility of 
spiritual expansion than the last baby born to the 
mortal. . . . "Marriage," as you see the written 
word before you, is a mystical symbol. And as 
you gaze intently, the letters will seem to gradu- 
ally fade, moved by spirit-fingers; and in their 
place will be the supernally glorified word of 
"love"! 

On the earth-plane and similar worlds, to most 
of its men and women, such a spiritual one-word 
does not appear ; but a shadowy, forbidding finger 
rudely crosses out what should be the sacred word 
of "marriage" (enshrined and surrounded by soft 
spiritual lights in its own place), and rudely writes 
across this, "habit"! ... a gnawing pain of in- 
creased sensualism. . . . Wait! . . . This will be 
eventually destroyed through the element of which 
I have written: the throwing out of the "demands" 
with strong will-power (not pusillanimous knock- 
ing, I have told you!) for chastity. This must be 
individual, until it becomes all-inclusive and uni- 
versal. 

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XXV 

The "demands" for all other virtues are inter- 
twined in the demand for chastity. Each of these 
virtues has its own significance and cognizance. 
Each realizes that sex-perversion and excess are 
detrimental to its own flowering. Each looks up 
to this mighty hero-brother of chastity, to whom 
all reach pleadingly and beseechingly for a rigid 
fineness; for on this depends their own efficacy of 
development, and with chastity perverted they be- 
come as hopeless, drooping flower-life . . . dead! 



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XXVI 

In the higher mortal-worlds the ideal of mar- 
riage is a consecration, with the baby placed ever 
before it as a delicate spirit-flower. It is God's 
love to his yet undeveloped children of the earth 
and similar worlds, that the little baby does even 
now appear to him, mortal-man, with the sweet- 
ness and tenderness of a flower, though the seeds 
of its life were sown in an element in which 
spiritual fineness had no place. And so let mor- 
tal man ever send out the "demands" for chastity. 
The little delicate shell of babyhood will vibrate 
oftener with the higher, inner harmonies. 



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XXVII 

JULY 16th. 

My dear husband ! I am with you this morning ! 
It is I, Anne; and what I am giving to you, with 
you as the earth-instrument of writing, comes 
from the higher spiritual essences through me. 
It is your mission to write this as it comes through 
me to you. . . . Always in calmness, and impas- 
sive! . . . Write now! ... I have written with 
a certain minuteness of the condition of mortal 
planes, and will now write in greater detail, than 
in the first Message, of the spiritual planes and 
their divisions of congenial spirit-life, the "Many 
Mansions," where there is affinity of association 
and characteristics. 

I have told you in the first Message of my own 
"passing over," so full of serenity, and the realiza- 
tion at once of influences of love for which in 
mortal-life there are no applicable words of 
explanation or expression; of the dream-like con- 
dition for a time, with moments of greater con- 
sciousness, as if the spiritual awakening was even 
beneficent in its gradual unfolding so as not to 
overstimulate the newly arrived spirit-soul; of the 
realization of spirit-vision and of spirit-hearing; 
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mortals of all mortal-worlds and immensity of 
systems, and for sending our own spirit-essence 
wider into the infinite spirit-planes and their 
"Many Mansions," to be received, or passed by, 
according to the receptive condition and the wish 
to receive of any spirit-souL 

For you will understand that a spirit of higher 
development would not find interesting the emana- 
tions from the lower spirit-planes; and the spirits 
of lower spirit-planes might not quite understand 
the emanations of higher spirit-planes. But about 
this lower spirit-life, less developed, the higher 
emanations lovingly linger; and, as there is more 
and more a greater demand for these, they enter 
the consciousness of such a spirit-soul. . . . Such 
are God's Law and Love! 



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XXVIII 

And this is spiritual progression for the spirit- 
souls; and from what I have written before, you 
may sense how similar is this progression in law 
and method to the progress of the mortal indi- 
vidual soul. So you will understand more and 
more, as will my beloved brothers of the earth- 
world, what I have said before in my first Mes- 
sage: The veil is but of transparency, like an 
exquisite bit of gossamer; and he of the mortal- 
worlds, if he so wishes, may easily peer through to 
the life and fineness of the spiritual planes and re- 
ceive his spiritual Crown of spiritual Sonship, 
while yet in the toils of mortal cares and chains. 

These chains are meant as a discipline! ... I 
have told you! They must not clank in heaviness 
like those of an incarcerated one, but are to be 
examined by intelligence. And the little opening 
in any link must be sought for (it is not so tightly 
welded that it may not be found by man's in- 
genuity and intense seeking ! ) . And when the 
little opening is found, salvation is not far away; 
for the seeking pre-supposes the wish to be free. 

Through the little opening of any link, if care- 
fully examined, will be a light-gleam. . . . Now! 



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. . . Now! . . . Rend this link apart with mortal 
will, effort and conviction! . . . The chain is 
rent!! . . . The gleam is a glory! . . . Heaven is 
before you! ... I have told you! 



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XXIX 

JULY 17th, morning. 
My beloved husband! I will continue my writ- 
ing now of the spiritual planes and places, and 
their sequential unfolding to the innermost 
Essence of the God-Love. ... I have told you 
of the "Many Mansions" of each spiritual plane; 
of the infinite number of these; of their vastness 
(no space-word!) ; of the infinitude of spirit-life; 
of the happiness of activity; of progress; of the 
clouds of doubt and uncertainty removed; of the 
spirit-consciousness; of its future evolution; and 
of the all-pervading Serenity and God-Love in 
these Heavenly places. I have explained that 
time and space are not terms of spirit-life. Our 
consciousness is that of a continuous happiness, 
that, visualized, might be expressed by the term 
"glorified radiance." 



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XXX 

For from this state of beatifiction there is 
always streaming a certain magnetic essence that 
awakens the optimism of all mortal-beings that 
it touches. Only the mortal must throw out the 
"demand" for this! And as spirit-souls have this 
quality to a greater or lesser degree, and as all 
are throwing out this characteristic emanation, its 
domination and permeation through the spiritual 
planes also are continuous and exhilarating (no 
word!). 

It is difficult for mortals to understand that 
this buoyant sense of happiness is surrounded 
by the great Calm and Serenity, which give the 
happiness of these places their peculiar quality, 
not to be described to mortals of earth or other 
worlds (those of more advanced mortal-worlds, 
of which I have told you, will sense this state of 
which I speak) . It shines as a crown of glorified 
star-light through the serenity of the tranquil 
earth-night (only a poor earth symbol!). The 
nearness of the God-Love gives to our happiness 
the especial quality which makes it indefinable to 
the earth-man. ... I have told you! 



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XXXI 

JULY 17th, later morning. 
There are also the lower spiritual planes. Of 
these I have not written, but have mentioned 
them. Their number is also to be expressed 
through no earth-terms. The spirit-life of each 
plane can sense to a degree the spirit -life of other 
spirit-planes, higher or lower. We hover in our 
consciousness about the higher ones. Our love, 
the God-love now intensified in us, will make our 
influence felt on the lower planes. For the love- 
permeations are the elements of regeneration for 
these lower planes, as they are indeed for the 
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XXXII 

The sense of aloofness or superiority is not a 
characteristic of any spirit-soul. There is, in- 
stead, the fervent wish to be of strong service to 
such, whose mortal life (not always wisely lived, 
perhaps) may have given them their spiritual 
abode in the lower spiritual planes. From all 
spirit-consciousness of spirit-souls there flows the 
God-love for the bringing of every other spirit- 
soul to its finality of spirit-regeneration and per- 
fection. I have explained the anguish of those 
of the lower spiritual planes. Memory of past 
deeds does not fade immediately, and regeneration 
is not immediate. This is remorse, which includes 
memory. The entire acceptance of the emanations 
of love, that surround such a one, is not immedi- 
ately understood, or maybe wished for, and so the 
realization of earth-vices and conduct remains. 
But to each spiritual soul the Light eventually 
comes in its completeness. There are no "lost 
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XXXIII 

JULY 17th, later morning. 
I have spoken of the emanations that the mor- 
tal feels, sent by us, that blossom to the higher 
deeds of earth-beauty and kindness. I shall only 
write briefly of the following: Ignoble impulses 
to the earth-mortals come through vitiating habit, 
and sometimes through obnoxious weeds that 
spring from heredity. Malicious impulses are not 
sent from the lowest spiritual planes. There is 
no place of evil spirits! The wave of partial 
regeneration has permeated the sinner of mortal- 
worlds when he passes the portals of the spiritual 
planes, even the lowest. No malicious permea- 
tions for the degeneration of those on mortal- 
worlds leaves even the lowest of spiritual planes. 
The faint glimmer of what love means becomes 
immediately a part of the consciousness of even 
that spirit-soul, whose earth-life has been most 
unclean and tainted. Malignity does not flow 
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XXXIV 

JULY 18th, moening. 
My Beloved! You are receptive this morning, 
and I am with you again! I write to you from 
the spiritual plane, where I am. When I come in 
proximity (or actual presence of spirit-form on 
mortal-planes), as I have told you, the emana- 
tions remain in these spirit-places where we are. 
The spirit-form under certain conditions of sensi- 
tive states of certain mortals may be visualized. 
To encourage this tendency, which may be more 
and more acquired through practice, is unwise, as 
it becomes a morbid and meaningless habit, and 
too frequently takes the strength and thought and 
necessary will from earth-duties. I have told this 
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XXXV 

Malignity, therefore, as I have written, does not 
flow from the Heavenly planes, even the lowest of 
these; and the lowest are those places where the 
mortal souls are seared from earth-vices. These 
lowest planes are yet God's places for his chil- 
dren who have erred, not always censurable in 
themselves, but as earth-children drifting aimlessly 
through evil tendencies of . . . wait! . . . calami- 
tous, festering traits that sweep and hurl them 
along over precipitous and sharp-pointed rocks of 
deeper vices and habits. But my beloved brothers 
of the earth-world, God's Love surrounds these 
through our emanations and the Christ-Emana- 
tion, when they pass over to these lowest of the 
lower planes! 



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XXXVI 

The mortal intelligence will know what affinity 
of soul-perversion is in these places; for each has 
about him, on mortal-worlds, the temptation of 
such soul . . . wait! . . . erosion. In the first 
Message the all-pervading love, in the spiritual 
planes, has been emphasized. So here, in these low- 
est planes with their "Many Mansions," the God- 
Tenderness and Love are ever hovering and per- 
meating . . . tendencies so strong and constant, 
that by their own conquering power they reach 
the cognizance of those spirits, lacerated by re- 
morse and memory. But the earth-mortal has not 
given sufficient weight and significance to God- 
Love. And man, through his imagination and 
the images of the Church, has designated these 
lower places as the places of writhing souls, 
beyond redemption. Tell them this is not so! 
God's love brings the most erring one to the 
ultimate places of the higher happiness and re- 
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XXXVII 

JULY 19th, evening. 
It is I, Anne! . . . wait! ... I will tell you 
more now of the plane upon which I exist in 
spiritual essence, and of those infinite spirit-souls 
that exist about me. They are of affinity of 
tastes, as I have told you in the first Message, of 
talents, of personalities, which are but similar, 
mortal worlds-personalities, glorified through 
love. This is one great reason for our happiness. 
And as our Mansion is filled with similar soul- 
types, so are all of the other Mansions of our 
plane and of the infinite other spirit-planes filled 
also with their similar soul-types. The emanations 
of each spirit-soul are permeating these infinite 
planes and infinite Mansions. It is the function- 
ing of each spirit-soul. And as each gives out, 
so is he ready to receive, and does receive, accord- 
ing to his fitness to receive; which possibility of 
emanation-receptiveness is always growing finer 
and stronger. And so each spirit-soul grows 
toward the higher places. We know each other 
through the distinctive quality and power of the 
emanations we send. And each spirit-soul has the 
faculty of recognizing this ; and so we have here our 
distinctive standing and position. 

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XXXVIII 

Names are unknown here. What we have made 
of ourselves on the earth-plane following our 
higher precepts and guidances, developing through 
discipline, accepting love and giving love, this 
really makes the source of our identity here by 
which we are recognized by other spirit-souls, 
besides our recognition through physiognomy. 
We have this personal identity. This I have told 
you we have not lost. But one spirit-soul will 
recognize another, who may be even on another 
plane, by his emanations. They are characteristic, 
and give the spirit-soul a distinctive place in the 
spirit-world. So names are unknown. I am 
known in nearness by my physiognomy and 
emanations. In distant planes I am known by my 
emanations; and this gives me my identity to 
spirits of distant and other planes. ... I have 
told you ! 



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XXXIX 

JULY 20th, morning. 

I am with you, and the impulse to write has 
been strongly in your consciousness since early 
waking. ... I have written in the first Message of 
the spirit-activity in these planes, and now wish 
to enlarge. There is no day or night. ... I have 
told you! An all-pervading serenity exists with a 
continuous light, . . . effulgence not too intense 
so as to disturb this. Our activity of creative con- 
tinuity is always with us. Those who have been 
material on earth-planes are taught, as children, 
to absorb what is appealing to the finer spirit and 
imagination; and so these, in a feeble and infantile 
way, throw out these lesser gleamings of beauty 
and creation which they have learned to absorb, 
and which enter, maybe, the consciousness of 
those lower spirit-souls, even than themselves; and 
so they begin their spirit-tasks of stimulation. 

These emanations of lesser significance pass by 
the higher spirit-souls as earlier reminiscences of 
an early growth, maybe echoes even from their 
life on the mortal-plane. The higher spirit-life 
has outgrown these elementary stimulation- 
impulses. It does not need them; but it is recep- 

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tive to those higher emanations from other spirit- 
life that may be on higher spiritual planes, or of 
that spirit-life on its own plane, but in a different 
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I have told you we are helping each other. Our 
spiritual needs are reached through the emanations 
of other spirit-souls; and as our stimulation is 
constantly for progress and the higher reaching 
to the higher spiritual planes, the characteristic of 
spirit-life is eagerness (always the serenity, not 
understood by mortals, surrounding this quality, 
which on mortal-planes is connected with the idea 
of a restless seeking), and a condition of recep- 
tiveness like a flower, unfolding to the influence 
of the early-summer sunshine. . . , So tell mor- 
tals to cultivate their imagination, through the arts 
especially! Their places will be higher in the 
spiritual planes, than if they omit to do this. 



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XLI 

The mortal of earth and other worlds should 
cultivate a calmness and serenity (I have told you 
this!) ; for from these grows the habit of introspec- 
tion, which is a soil for spirit -growth and progress 
while yet on mortal planes. The scimeter-stroke 
of action should be ever ready, fulfilling its pur- 
pose and accomplishment. And then, again, 
should come the time when action should lie fallow 
and inert (like resting in the shade and enjoying 
repose . . . not tolerating, but enjoying!) ; and 
introspection again will rest on its bed of calmness 
and serenity. 



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XLII 

At this time one enjoys the fleecy cloud, the 
sweep of the bird-flight, and its song as it sits in 
the light of early evening (I sense dimly now the 
serenity of earth-twilight . . . how faint the im- 
pression in this vastness of spirit-serenity!), high, 
high, in the topmost branch, thanking God in its 
own way ! The mortal, in his garments of Church- 
worship and elaboration of ritualism, prostrate be- 
fore shrines and worshipping before incensed 
altars, does not please God more than the one 
bird with his one song, singing to his one God. 

Man dimly realizes this as he listens to the 
liquid fervency of the bird-song at this time of 
earth-serenity, the early evening hours . . . wait! 
. . . before night descends . . . beneficent night 
that gives to man the stars and brooding calmness, 
the nearest earth-element of spiritual serenity! 
But he only dimly realizes; for he, man, in his 
present state of evolution, has not yet sensed 
the oneness of all creation, and holds himself as a 
superior creation, which he is not. Let man grow 
in universal love through the appreciation of the af- 
fection and love for all creation, and not only for 
his own kind! ... So will the inner harmonies be 
awakened! 

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XLIII 

JULY 20TH, LATER MORNING. 

I have told you we are sending and receiving 
through the emanations. I hear you asking if 
this action is continuous. When I wrote in the 
first Message that there exist Heavenly serenity 
and peace, but not Heavenly rest, it was meant 
relatively. There are times on these planes when 
the stimulation to either give or receive is more 
than at other times. But the tendency seems to 
be happily in a state of action, tempered always 
by serenity. It is the perpetual, surrounding 
calmness, which makes the possibility for con- 
tinuity of action. 

For actual cessation, as man needs for recupera- 
tion (as his time of sleep and rest), is not a part 
of the scheme of these Heavenly places. The con- 
sciousness of the desire or craving for rest from 
weariness does not exist here, because there is no 
weariness. There are no laggards in these 
Heavenly planes! It is our existence to progress 
and to be doing. There is in the spirit-soul the 
deep consciousness of the place he fills in the 
spiritual scheme for regeneration; and with this 
realization comes the immediate action for its 
beneficent fulfillment. ... I have told you ! 

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XLIV 

JULY 20th, later morning. 
So we progress and unfold towards the ultimate 
God-Love, a progression ever stimulating, but 
gentle and serene; a power that wafts (no word!) 
the spirit-soul to progressive action . . . not urg- 
ing or coercing. There is always the gentleness of 
a personal, surrounding love and guidance, that 
mortals on any mortal-world do not understand. 
. . . You ask of the time in any Mansion or 
spiritual plane? I cannot tell you this, as my mor- 
tal appreciation and realization of time have dis- 
appeared. The happiness exists in this: We 
realize we are becoming and will arrive! ... all 
of us, not certain chosen ones. Such are God- 
Love and God-Laws for the spiritual Kingdom. 
"How," we know through spiritual growth. 
"When," we do not understand, because our pres- 
ent happiness is of such unique fineness that its 
present state is all-satisfying to the spirit-con- 
sciousness. 



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XLV 

JULY 21ST, MORNING. 

I hear you again asking of the higher spiritual 
planes than those upon which I exist! We of 
the lower plane-existences are all tending towards 
these. The elision is beautiful and gradual. It is 
difficult to speak to you of the conditions sur- 
rounding these higher existences; for we spirit- 
souls, who are not of them, cannot understand 
them, or are not prepared to receive the highest 
emanations. They pass us by as emanations. 
We, in our consciousness, realize this; but also 
realize the spiritual law for this, and it does not 
give us unhappiness; for we know as we prepare 
here we will gradually evolve. That is sufficient 
for us. 



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XL VI 

So understand this law as to the passing of the 
emanations through the spiritual planes, and their 
relation to any spirit-soul: Lower emanations are 
not accepted because they will not tend further 
to this spiritual progression. Higher emanations 
to the spirit-soul, far ascending his understanding 
or spiritual growth of that special moment of his 
progress, do not enter because they are beyond 
his appreciation, and the stimulation would be 
excessive and not understood. The emanations 
which do enter his spiritual essence and conscious- 
ness are those a little higher, so the entrance of 
these may be a serene influence, and not one of 
over-stimulation. So the growth of the spirit- 
souls of mortals that have "passed over" is gradual 
in its reaching towards the higher places. ... I 
have told you! 



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XLVII 

JULY 21ST, LATER MORNING. 

From what I have told you you will understand 
that I cannot, in my present spirit-existence, 
unfold to you the conditions on spirit-planes of 
far more advanced development than our own. 
This we know: that the unfolding towards the 
higher planes is continuous, and that added happi- 
ness and serenity (no words for even our present 
glorified Mansion!) will come to us. We have 
no restless seeking. I have told you this. The 
Father's Hand soothes (oh, so personally!), and 
His Essence of Love surrounds so beneficently 
each spirit-soul, as it exerts its manifold spirit- 
action and accomplishment. There is no retro- 
gression! The God-Love is too powerful, and its 
realization penetrates to the inner consciousness 
of each spirit-identity. ... I tell you what is 
given me to tell you. The eventual evolution of 
each spirit-soul will be towards the Central 
Essence of God-Love and God-Energy. 



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XL VIII 

JULY 2 1st, morning, later. 
Wait! . . . You must stop now! . . . You are 
faithful, and my beloved husband! 



CW\ 




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XLIX 

JULY 21ST, EVENING. 

It is I . . . wait! . . . Write: The con- 
sciousness of each spirit-soul has become accentu- 
ated and finer. In the earth-consciousness the 
plummet descends in some mortals but a little way; 
in others, as the genius, the descent is greater 
. . . and then stops. But with the spirit-soul it is 
meant that the spiritual windows should be thrown 
open wide, and we become aware of those finer 
things of love and happiness and the finality of 
things, that to man of mortal-worlds are closed. 
Not finality of love and happiness; this we only 
sense! But through our present ecstatic state 
(with serenity!) we realize in our being the un- 
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The spirit-soul is not in isolation, as is the 
mortal. For the latter there is always the little 
soul-center which is unshared by other mortals; 
and this state of individualism makes him feel 
so frequently his loneliness. But here the inner 
consciousness of eacli spirit-soul is shared, as it 
were, by every other spirit-soul. He holds noth- 
ing of himself back when he gives out his emana- 
tions. It is his finest spiritual soul-center; and 
this makes the peculiar unity of these Heavenly 
places . . . wait! . . . through confidence (this 
might be the earth word!). We know that the 
emanations represent a certain spiritual soul- 
identity ... his all! There are no "masks" in 
these Heavenly places. The words of mortals are 
so frequently masks . . . "false faces," the chil- 
dren of earth call them! The mortal of gentle 
frankness (it must not be barbed!) that gives his 
innermost soul-quality, without dissimulation, is 
reaching out towards a characteristic of the spirit- 
souls of our places of happiness. ... I have told 
you! 



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LI 



JULY 22nd, morning. 
I am here this morning, Anne, and am still 
writing what is given to me from the higher 
planes, with you as the earth-instrument! I write 
what is given to me, a spirit of higher spiritual 
consciousness than the mortal of any mortal-plane. 
There are many things of ultimate future unfold- 
ing and development that cannot he given to the 
mortal, because of the limitations of mortal- 
language. Earth-language ceases finally, in its 
highest possibility for expansion and expression, 
to be a medium of the highest possible spiritual 
conditions. So it might be said, that coming 
through me, there is the awakening of mortal- 
consciousness to its degree of possibility for 
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LII 

The finality of ultimate spiritual conditions are 
Love and Energy. There can be no more under- 
standable explanation to the mortals of mortal- 
planes. We, as spiritual entities, sense the higher 
condition of Love and Energy, but it is not pos- 
sible to explain it further to mortal-intelligence. 
If I were writing to the mortals of the higher 
mortal-planes of development, I might explain 
more; for their understanding would make this 
possible. I sense, therefore, as a spiritual entity, 
more than I can express to the earth-mortal, 
through his limitation of earth-conception and 
earth-language. 

If my mission were to write to the higher 
spiritual planes, the language would be obviously 
different and intuitive in processes . . . would be 
recognized by them with the same confidence that 
you realize these earth- words. When the spiritual 
souls confer with earth-mortals by intuitive 
processes, these are not yet accepted by the earth- 
mortal with confidence. . . . Wait! ... I am 
writing to you in the language of my native mortal 
dwelling-place. To be understood by others of 
the earth-plane, it must be translated into numer- 
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intuition-processes to the mortals of higher planes, 
it would be understood with surety by all mortals 
of those mortal-planes as a universal language, 
and would be accepted by them. ... I have told 
you! 



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LIII 

JULY 22nd, morning. 
Again I write continuously with what I have 
just written. . . . Wait! ... I have told you 
this second Message, with my first Message, are 
revelations coming from the higher spiritual 
sources, with me as the intermediary instrument, 
and yourself writing in earth-language. They are 
revelations so that the earth-man may have con- 
viction of spiritual planes and conditions and of 
the future spiritual life and progress; and in the 
first Message were given those God-qualities which 
mortal-man must follow, and which will quicken 
the time of spiritual regeneration for him. The 
God-Love hastens the time of such regeneration 
by giving him these paths; and at the end of each 
may be seen a glorified vision of the future. 



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LIV 

There is correlation between all of these virtues 
and characteristics. . . . To be "kind" (the 
spiritual kindness!) will unfold and stimulate the 
other virtues. To have "serenity" will be to 
possess a central flower of light (partially hidden 
in its own mystic essence), around which cluster 
in spiritual bloom the other significant virtues. 
Other revelations have come to the earth-world. 
Their acceptance has become deadened. . . . Let 
the earth-mortal awaken to the spiritual sources 
and believe in the existence and happiness of the 
future life through a fuller conviction. Revela- 
tions are God-Love coming through as an added 
hope for stimulation by Him to his earth- and 
other mortal-children. . . . May the earth-mortal 
accept as I write! For these are messages from 
the spirit-influences of the higher spirit-places. 
. . . . I have told you! . . . And realize that to 
other mortal-worlds similar revelations occur, 
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LV 



JULY 22nd, evening. 
My beloved husband! I come to you again and 
am ever waiting! . . . Not only do the spiritual- 
entities of mortals from the spirit-planes send 
out their emanations to all mortal-worlds and 
systems, but the spiritual entities of each kind of 
creation on the spiritual planes send their emana- 
tions, each to its kind on the mortal-planes. I 
have told you they have their language, each of 
its kind. And they send this to their physical 
counterpart of the earth and of the mortal-planes 
for the stimulation and added quickening of all 
those traits of fineness that these may possess on 
such mortal-planes, a language unknown to the 
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LVI 

An earth-plant, too, must have its characteris- 
tics: a steadfastness to stand up bravely against 
earth-storms; to be tenacious and grow under a 
withering sun; to give its shade generously, may 
be for the little insects that may wish to remain 
there; not to absorb all the nutriment of growing 
from the brown earth, but to share with its near 
neighbor; to love others of its kind, and to be 
tolerant to those plants not of its kind; to absorb 
virtues that it has not, and to learn from these; 
to enjoy the serenity of the stars and night, and to 
look with tenderness on the glistening globules 
that cluster on its leaves ... all these, and many 
more that the earth-man would not understand, 
receive stimulation from their spiritual counter- 
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LVII 

And of animals! . . . wild! . . . man calls 
them because he hunts and goads them and tries to 
shorten their earth-days which they seek in full- 
ness of earth-life, as does mortal-man. The wild 
animals are more gentle when man is far away, 
and when they have the opportunity, without 
molestation, to seek their food and to find their 
mates and bring forth their young. The spiritual 
counterpart of this creation is sending its emana- 
tions to such for added, fineness. Certain ones 
the earth-man calls treacherous and cunning; but 
he does not remember that such traits linger also 
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LVIII 

On the spiritual planes those animals that we 
feared on the earth for their ferocity have lost 
these traits, that, through long cycles of time from 
inheritance of species, have been accentuated and 
are repulsive to the earth-man . . . the animals 
of the night and forests that we fear to meet. 
Man has made these dangerous to him by his 
antagonism and seeking to destroy. In the 
Heavenly places these traits in animal-creation do 
not exist. The Heavenly love makes the harmony 
of Heaven for all spiritual identities of all 
spiritual creations, which are but the mortal forms 
of these, clothed in spiritual essence. I have told 
you, my beloved husband, so that the earth-man 
may give a greater dignity, love and tolerance to 
all forms of mortal-creation. 



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LIX 

JULY 23rd, early afternoon. 
I am with you, eager to continue the Writing. 
It is never with restlessness I await you, but 
rather a calm happiness that I may again be of 
service to the mortals of the earth, and the 
stronger happiness of unfolding this through your 
writing as the higher messages come through me 
... a peculiar happiness of renewing the earth- 
contact with you again; through you, a mortal, 
bound already to my spiritual essence with indis- 
soluble links. For, even if you were not to remain 
faithful to your trust, there would eventually be 
this unity. For what you are cannot be destroyed 
. . . only the time of this union would not be 
immediate with your "passing over." 



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LX 



I have written of the stimulation that all crea- 
tion receives on all mortal- worlds from its spiritual 
correspondences on the spiritual planes, and that 
each order of stimulation is different for different 
orders of mortal-creation. There are now stronger 
dominating forces that will come into existence at 
a later period of the earth-advancement. As there 
develop the unfolding of mortal sympathy and 
understanding for different kinds of mortal crea- 
tion, and as this realization becomes advanced, the 
emanations of any one spiritual kind of creation 
will not only go to its mortal prototype, but will 
go to and permeate all other types of mortal- 
creation. 



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LXI 

But such stimulation will only occur at a later 
period of advancement than is now possessed by 
the earth-mortal. It occurs in the life of more 
advanced mortal-worlds than the earth; and so 
there comes to these advanced mortal-creations an 
interplay of spiritual emanations, so that a greater 
harmony will exist between all types of mortal- 
creation, and it will approximate such affinity of 
these different types, as now exists in the spiritual 
planes. ... So again will the law of God's Unity 
of all of his created mortal-life be realized. The 
happiness of such realization transcends any 
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LXII 

JULY 23rd, later afternoon. 
Write! ... I hear you ask again if this con- 
tinuous activity does not lead to a weariness, may 
be not as earth-weariness, but one so that we might 
wish to change our momentary activity for one of 
another kind. I have partially answered this be- 
fore. There is no fatigue here. The spiritual 
mind and spiritual consciousness of spirit-identities 
are not over-stimulated by these emanations which 
we continually give and receive. There is always 
the tranquilization which seems to go with these. 
Rest and activity here seem to be intertwined. 
On the earth and other mortal planes rest begins 
when activity ceases. It is not so here on the 
spiritual plane. The emanations that we give out 
and receive furnish their own rest-quality (which 
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LXIII 

Our spiritual vision! I will write of this! . . . 
You have often experienced on earth the joy of 
great expansion . . . the plains, and the water 
we have crossed together so many times. Do you 
remember this, at the time of approaching night, 
with its quieting influence, as if the soul were in 
strange and mystical places, and had left for a 
time its body-environment? ... Do you remem- 
ber? . . . wait! ... It was a time when spirit- 
influences seemed hovering near; when language 
ceased, and serenity descended like an unseen cloud 
of immensity, yet ever tender and comforting and 
quieting. It was a rare moment between two 
worlds, maybe remembered in after days with a 
peculiar feeling of reminiscence, colored by the 
deeper shadows of wonder, or the engulfing ones 
of awe. Man's mortal vision does not extend far; 
and, yet, even in the mortal undeveloped soul, what 
spiritual significance is awakened by a little spread 
of earth-distance! 



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LXIV 

Now turn suddenly to the soul-enlightenment 
and soul-awakening that have come to us spirit- 
identities! A radiance of happiness we were, even 
before our spiritual eyes were opened after the 
"passing over." And now, if you can sense with 
your earth-imagination what appears to such a 
spirit-soul when the spirit- vision is unfolded! . . . 
where distance is limitless (no word!) ; where all is 
seen in extent, vastness and beauty (no words!) ; 
and when what is seen is glorified spirit-essence of 
mortal creation, the spirit-qualities of which are 
not to be described in mortal language. 



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LXV 

It is difficult in this earth-language to explain 
and express the spiritual, pulsating, vast and ever- 
opening and unfolding spirit-vision, as limitless 
as man's earth vision is contracted, when he sees 
and feels what for him are experiences of signifi- 
cant earth-moments. I have been trying, though 
imperfectly, to show you the glory of spirit-extent 
and environment. With a spirit-essence infinitely 
finer to appreciate, and a spirit-material infinitely 
and supernally glorified to be visualized, the rela- 
tion of this to the earth-man's vision of earth- 
phenomena, at the highest impressiveness, is as the 
darkness, surrounding one who has never seen 
with mortal eye, to the glory of a burning sun. 



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LXVI 

JULY 25th, morning. 
My beloved husband! I am writing again this 
morning from the higher spiritual forces. ... I 
have written of the earth-significance and effect 
of extent and distances to awaken serenity on 
mortal consciousness, and the infinite unfolding of 
such an element to the spirit-consciousness of 
spiritual places. I will now write, as well as may 
be done through earth-language and through its 
possibility of understanding by the mortal, of the 
element of spiritual beauty of those earth-creations 
that appear here in spiritual essence. 



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LXVII 

As to color, which might be considered as one 
of the great spiritual elements of beauty, as it 
reaches the spiritual consciousness in these infinite 
spirit-planes and Mansions, I have written some- 
what in the first Message ... a continuous wave 
of cloud-emanation, that passes through these 
places, and which we see with our spiritual vision, 
and also sense as an element of beauty-awakening 
when the vision remains dormant. 

The significance is not only of the sometimes 
sweeping and colossal (no word!) . . . immense 
. . . quantity ... majesty ... all insignificant 
earth-words!) color-columns and masses, ever- 
moving with a serenity of movement in the spirit- 
visualization of their color, movement and mass, 
but also from the emanations which they send 
forth. For they are the composite product of 
spirit-creation and spirit-imagination, which has 
its beginning on mortal-planes, through those 
mortals who express themselves by the arts. 

On the mortal-planes each artist functioned his 
own art, which appeared as a creation of his 
especial imagination and gifts. On the spiritual 
planes, I have told you, the same gift and imagina- 

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tion exist, only supernally glorified. But indi- 
vidual creation-product does not exist here. It is 
all merged into elements of unification, of which 
color is one. 



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LXVIII 

So these vast color-schemes are one form of the 
glorified spirit art-creations. They contain the 
composite product of spirit-imagination. They 
represent the composite activity of infinite spirit- 
souls and imagination. The mortal of earth classi- 
fies the arts. Here they are merged into one 
expression. Again, God's law of unification! 
There is no expression for the stimulation and 
glory (no words!), as the vast scheme for spirit- 
progress and tranquilization is realized by spirit- 
souls. We are grateful and happy because we 
are each doing our share. 

And those who are unprepared for this, who 
have been material or worldly or have come to us 
in earth-corruption, are made receptive to 
imagination and grow to understand. And little 
by little they also create, as infants play with 
building blocks. And as they build in their 
childish way, that which they create goes as a 
creative product into the great composite color- 
vastnesses (not always so; sometimes very delicate 
and tender!), the colors and tints of which are 
not to be explained through mortal language. . . . 
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LXIX 

JULY 27th, morning. 
Sunday! . . . You hear the church-bell as you 
write! . . . Dull to me, but clear and serene to 
you as you hear it in the quiet of the morning! 
Sometimes if man would listen more to the silver 
spirit-voice of the bell he would not be lacerated or 
deadened by the word of the preacher. It would 
be as an impervious armor which would protect 
him from decorated and daintily dressed verbiage. 
The church of the mortal of the future will dwell 
more on the serenity that comes through silence. 
Explanation and empty language-rosaries (false 
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LXX 

I now write again as the instrument of higher 
influences. ... I have written to you of the color- 
clouds which pass through these places of Light, 
and the significance of which is not only their 
majesty and beauty through spirit-vision, but the 
effect on spirit-consciousness as art-creation. 
They represent the composite spirit-life and spirit- 
imagination; but we, of the spirit-life, according 
to our receptive condition and the development of 
our individual imagination, are able to receive not 
only the composite stimulation, but to realize and 
enjoy again the individual creation as it appeared 
in the consciousness of any spirit identity before 
it was released by him with gladness to become a 
part of this composite stimulation. We are able 
to separate such and enjoy as is our wish, seeing 
or hearing with our spiritual vision or spiritual 
hearing the individual creation of any spirit-soul, 
which has been merged into this composite element 
of color-vastness, serene movement and unexplain- 
able color-beauty. (These are all earth terms!) . 



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LXXI 

So identity of creation-gift is not lost, though I 
have formerly told you, that, in its projection, it 
seemingly has lost its identity in the composite. 
Each spirit-soul takes from this what he wishes, 
and will continually absorb that which is finer. 
So, as I have explained, the individuality of the 
arts on the spiritual planes is preserved, though 
disappearing in the immensity of the composite. 
What we enjoy is not the visualized work as the 
mortal sees it on the earth-plane, but visualized or 
heard through spirit-sight and spirit-hearing. 



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LXXII 

JULY 28th, afternoon. 
My beloved husband ! . . . I am with you ! . . . 
I sense your earth discomfort in these summer 
days of burning and disquieting earth-heat. You 
are brave to try the writing! I will give you help! 
Through serenity the gnats and gad-flys of 
mortal-places may be changed to golden butter- 
flies, and tranquillity will change the burning sun- 
heat to grateful and caressing zephyr-tendernesses. 
... I will help you! 



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LXXIII 

Spiritual waters have been in your conscious- 
ness! ... I have told you of the color-worlds, as 
they pass endlessly through our planes, giving and 
stimulating, and into which we merge our spirit- 
creations that are evolved through spirit-conscious- 
ness and imagination. But there is also the 
element of the spiritual waters, the silver waters 
of mortal-planes, glorified through spiritual 
existence. You have seen on the mortal-planes 
the prism-colors shimmering in the mists of falling 
waters, as the spray leaves the stolid and severe 
central fall, and darts here and there like color- 
will-o'-the-wisps, or again floating off into space, 
as dreamy reminiscence-worlds hover a moment 
about a definite consciousness and then disappear 
into the silent unknown ... a Heavenly-touched 
memory, never to be recalled again. 

And if the mortal has seen such earth- 
phenomena, he has been on the border-land of the 
spiritual world, as nearly visualized,, in one 
element, as he may ever hope for. And yet only 
the border-land! . . . and that is such an arid 
waste compared to the actual beauties (a hard 
word of earth!) which we see here of the spirit- 
waters. . . . Yes, I like those earth-words! They 
flow with a serene spirit-cadence! 

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LXXIV 

The spirit-waters! . . . extent! . . . vast! . , . 
a glorified silver in places, and yet touched by the 
reflection of the floating color-masses . . . not 
always; for there are times when these color- 
clouds may not be in ponderous mass, but in float- 
ing fineness; and then the spirit-waters will not 
take to themselves the reflection of spirit-colors, 
the beauty of which is indescribable, but will 
remain tranquil in their own silvery essence. 

Vast! . . . Extent! ... I have told you! 
They are the home of myriads of life that has 
lived in its own mortal-planes in the deep places 
that man has not yet fathomed and conquered. 
How far away to these beings of deep and shallow 
waters is the earth -man! They seem to him a part 
of earth's creation of little interest, often repul- 
sive. He destroys them, sometimes needlessly. 
But here we look on the life of the spirit-waters 
with the same feeling of love, as might exist be- 
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LXXV 

They, too, have their language and emanations, 
and we give to them as do they to us. Even you, 
as you write through me, cannot understand. I 
feel the earth-repulsion. But this will change in 
the spirit-places, and has already changed in the 
advanced mortal-worlds. God has given a world- 
home of unusual vastness and profundity, in its 
atmosphere of depth and darkness and beautiful 
in its surface lights, to the creation of the fishes. 
A different environment from man's own has 
created in him an indifference that will reach his 
spirit-consciousness of the spirit-places as a beau- 
tiful awakening. . . . The little globules of water 
that the fishes throw upward into the earth-light 
are but a tender symbol that they, too, wish to do a 
gentle homage to the Light . . . like a spraying 
incense to their God! 



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LXXVI 

JULY 29th, afternoon. 
I am here, Anne, always waiting to continue the 
second Message, which comes through me I You 
will see the difference in character of this Writing, 
to my communications between the first and sec- 
ond Messages. Those were my communications of 
a personal and over-flowing love, with an occa- 
sional illuminative unfolding, as I sensed it, from 
the higher spiritual planes. But here, my Be- 
loved, I write to you impersonally. The love, 
surrounding you as a cloud of unseen emanations, 
has not ceased, but is felt by you, and not 
expressed. The Message becomes in this way a 
sequential series of unfolding inspirational Writing 
through you, in a form that will more readily meet 
acceptance. 



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LXXVII 

Sometimes such acknowledgment will be from 
one whose soul is parched like the desert flower, 
and it will be nourished as by a long and eagerly 
waited dew-spray; and such a mortal-spirit sees 
at once the spiritual colors in the glisten of each 
dew-globule, and is thankful! At other times, 
in those of deadened spirit, the unfolding of what 
I am writing to you will fall on ears that are 
sealed and closed. The awakening of such mortals 
will be in a world of spirits after they "pass on," 
and their planes on these worlds will not be 
exalted. For what they have omitted to listen to, 
they will, through the higher love, after the "pass- 
ing over" be willing to listen to, and so their 
unfolding will begin. 



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LXXVIII 

From others there will come a doubt, nurtured 
by a pernicious and gnawing reasoning, that will 
grow to even malignant hostility towards all that 
I write, and even towards you, a revealer of the 
unseen spirit-life and conditions of the future. 
The blame and censure should not be to them. 
For ignorance and intolerance result from the 
flickering and nearly extinguished lamps of their 
spiritual natures and acceptances, and from fol- 
lowing materiality, and worshiping, as supreme, 
those logical and sequential mental processes by 
which man evolves the problems of law and 
science, and which are, indeed, useful, but should 
not be the infallible god of his conduct and vision. 

These, too, will realize on the spiritual planes 
their mistakes. Their places will be lower, and 
their spiritual companions will be of similar types 
... a Mansion where there is remorse! Can you 
sense the suffering of this, my beloved husband? 
. . . but where through God's Love and Law 
there are the beginning and awakening of the 
appreciation of the higher spiritual blessedness. 
. . . I have told you! 



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LXXIX 

JULY 29TH, LATER AFTERNOON. 

I have written to you of the spirit-waters, the 
great spirit-places of spirit-life that has passed 
from mortal-life to these abiding-places of all 
creation. I have told you of such creation living, 
even on mortal-planes, in shallow and deep 
waters; in earth-streams that pass through 
flowered meadows; in rushing rivers where they 
leap for joy, often over earth's rocks that oppose 
them (for they too have their courage and ambi- 
tion to conquer and arrive!) ; in great placid lakes 
with wooded shores, or in the ponderous depths 
of the greatest earth-waters (like little pools to 
the spirit-world!), where mountains raise them- 
selves from untouched earth-valleys, far under- 
neath the water surfaces ... an infinite creation 
here in a great expanse of mortal environment. 



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LXXX 

In the waters of mortal-worlds such creation 
has its variety of species, each with its separate 
communications, some near species understanding 
each other, while again there is the same diver- 
gence of understanding among them as between 
the different types of mortal-man, whose ways 
and thoughts and living are at variance. They 
destroy each other as does the earth-man, the 
weaker carefully hiding in the shadows and shal- 
lows from the stronger. They have their pecu- 
liarities of traits and consciousness and action. 
Their life is not inferior to that of the man-type. 
They have their ambitions, their happinesses, their 
cares and sorrows. They sense the being of man 
as they sense the might and cruelty of some of 
their own kind, and do not feel an affinity toward 
the man-type; which cause originates from his 
oppression. On the higher mortal-worlds the 
affinity, toleration and kindness of all created 
types for each other are in a more advanced state. 
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LXXXI 

JULY 29th, later aftebxoox. 
In the spirit-waters the abiding element is the 
Love-Element, as it is for all mortals who have 
passed into the spiritual planes, and for all types 
of creation that have passed into the spiritual 
planes. In the spirit-waters all types that dwell 
therein have reached a higher understanding of 
God's laws and love, as have all other mortal- 
types that have passed into their spirit-identities. 
So there is harmony in the spirit-waters for those 
creations that exist in these places. Rapacity and 
cruelty of certain species have disappeared. Their 
especial ways of language and communication 
have been changed by the laws of spirit-worlds. 
They develop and reach higher spiritual places. 
Their appreciation of God's love and beneficence 
unfolds. They give out their spirit-emanations, 
which is their language to their own kind and to 
all species of their kind. They give out their 
emanations to all other spiritual types on the 
spiritual planes, including the spirit-identity which 
has been mortal-man. He understands them; and 
their emanations are included in the universal 
language of spirit-worlds, by which each kind 
understands all kinds of creations. 

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LXXXII 

It is one of the great sources of happiness to 
each mortal-creation, now in spirit-places, to feel 
the binding and golden cords of love that encircle 
them all, close, so personally and lovingly close 
together, and that lead them all, ever higher, 
toward the inner Love of the Inner Essence of 
God. . . . May the mortal of the earth, as I 
write this through you, prostrate himself in spirit 
before the idea, even as he feebly realizes this, of 
the encircling God-Love, that with the great 
encircling Spiritual Arm gathers all of His 
beloved creation to the Innermost Place of Ten- 
derness of His God-Heart! 



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LXXXIII 

JULY 30th, afternoon. 
My beloved husband! ... I come to you again 
and write through the influence of the Heavenly 
places. ... I have told you of the infinite life on 
the spirit-places that dwells in spirit-waters, but 
I have not told you of the spirit-life of this ele- 
ment itself. For it, also, as it had a place on 
mortal-planes, has its place on spiritual planes, 
not only as an abode of an element that lived in 
the waters of mortal-planes, but as an element 
that throws out its own living vibration-essences, 
from which we learn; and also an element which 
absorbs our creations of spirit-consciousness, as 
does the color-element that floats through these 
places. 



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LXXXIV 

Those who have crossed the great waters of the 
earth-plane, for instance, have so frequently been 
impressed in a lesser or greater degree, according 
to spiritual enlightenment of the mortal- soul, with 
the moods and the effect of great mortal-waters; 
and so also, but in a different way of the merry 
laughing brooks, or the tiniest stream, nearly 
parched and overwhelmed by the infinite grains of 
glistening sand that will gradually leave but an 
earth-surface, where formerly had been a tiny 
water-flow, struggling for existence; and of spray 
throwing itself in abandon and in a misty, 
dreamy way through the gleam of sunlight into a 
vague and phantasmal disappearance! 

All these phenomena of water-effects are but 
an earth-language for the fluent water-flow and 
fall. The mortal of earth does not recognize this 
as a language . . . emanations from another form 
of God's creation; but thinks his own mood the 
important and primary element that is super- 
ficially acted upon by the dead waters. He is 
wrong! They are the powerful factor, and are 
impressing and talking to him in a language that 
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LXXXV 

I tell you of these mortal effects of water- 
impressiveness that I may prepare the mortal of 
earth for the larger life and significance of spirit- 
waters. They, the spirit-waters, are one of God's 
creation and live. They give to us definite im- 
pressions of exact significance that we understand, 
and that stimulate both the sense for beauty and 
the larger consciousness of profundity. And, as 
they give to us, so we give to them on these spirit- 
planes. They absorb (it is difficult to explain 
this! It is for the mortal a new thought with his 
wisps and odds and ends of mortal language- 
expression!) our creations of feeling and thought 
into one, immense composite art-reservoir (a poor 
word; I can do no better!). And from this com- 
posite and all-encircling magnet (like a great 
power, drawing all to itself) we, of spirit-essence, 
of all spirit-created life (not only the man-spirit- 
identity, but all created life!) are uplifted, and at 
will may individualize and separate from this com- 
posite, sensitized mass, where dwells, among other 
things, the concentrated art-projection of the 
spirit-identity of mortal-man. 



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LXXXVI 

So what has been given and absorbed as indi- 
vidual art-creation again speaks to us as individual 
creation. We feel and understand the spirit- 
waters then in their power as concentrated unity; 
then again as individualized art-creation; then 
again as isolated beauty-impressions . . . little 
beauty and power-gleams, which may reach us for 
stimulation as part of a larger creation. And so 
in the spirit-waters we may again be conscious of 
what has been given to them, the spirit-waters, 
through creative spirit-identity, and may enjoy 
the spirit-happiness and consciousness of those 
emanations which have been focussed and formed 
through other spirit-consciousness and intelligence 
besides our own. 

Let the earth-man cultivate then the higher 
serenity, so that the language of earth-waters and 
the glorious colors of earth-clouds may penetrate 
farther than his superficial outer portals. They 
must reach the inner glorified gates of his being. 
And if he demands this, these will majestically 
open, and he will have a dim awakening of 
Heavenly conditions while yet an earth-wayfarer. 
. . . I have told you! 



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LXXXVII 

JULY 31ST, EARLY MORNING. 

It is I, Anne, your beloved Wife, writing! . . . 
It is coming to me from the higher spiritual forces, 
spiritual identities on the higher spiritual planes. 
We, I as a spirit-identity, you as an earth-mortal, 
are intermediary instruments by which these com- 
munications are coming through to the earth-man 
for his higher awakening stimulation, and for his 
satisfying conviction of the continuation of mortal 
life in these places of progress, serenity and 
happiness. ... Wait! . . . Impassive! ... I 
will write to you of those vast places of beauty 
and serenity of the spiritual planes that corre- 
spond to earth-mountains and forests and seem- 
ingly unbounded open places which man desig- 
nates sometimes as plains, where there is little 
shade, but where the earth-grasses have their pro- 
fusion. Each of these creations is here in its 
spiritual essence; and from each flows the great 
spiritual serenity that stimulates and at the same 
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LXXXVIII 

So from what I have written in the first Mes- 
sage and communicated to you so far in the second 
Message, you will understand that here, in the 
spiritual places, there are the spiritual corres- 
pondences of what appear on mortal-planes, earth 
and other mortal-planes. I have told you that 
the spirit-phenomena of these, many of them, are 
strange to spirits that have come from the earth- 
plane, because what is visualized here with spirit- 
vision has not all come from the earth-plane, but 
from many other mortal-planes. 

So while we recognize much of the life here of 
every created type as something familiar, many 
types are strange to us, who have come from the 
earth-world. What gives the vastness of spirit- 
conception to the spirit-soul of these places is the 
far vision of his spiritual vision. For, if he wishes, 
he may at will exert this power so that he will 
see or be conscious of an entire spirit-plane with 
its many Mansions, and also sense the condition 
of other spirit-planes at the same time. 



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LXXXIX 

The earth-man will hardly understand this. 
His eye has a limited range of vision; and where 
the eye ceases to function, his infantile imagina- 
tion does not continue to further stimulate his 
consciousness. Here the stimulation through 
spirit-vision unfolds to an infinite (no word!) de- 
gree; so what we see (it is so difficult to express!) 
are vast worlds of which the earth-man sees but 
a minute portion . . . vast worlds of all that 
mortal-man visualizes in little patches . . . vast 
worlds (in extent and mass) of mountain-efFects, 
of moving color-mass, of somber forests, of spirit- 
waters, of grassy plains, of flower-enticements. 

All, all of this we may become conscious of at 
once, if we wish, and be impressed by a composite 
communication; or we may have the happiness 
that shows itself to us from a single blade of 
spiritual grass, or from a glint of spiritual color 
that passes through the dewdrop, resting on a 
slender, pointed finger-blade. 



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XC 



Let the earth-man have an enlarged hope and 
more beautiful faith from this fact, namely: To 
him, already, on the mortal-plane, such communi- 
cation as comes through his mortal eye is prepar- 
ing him for the glorified future of the spiritual 
places. His vision is limited and dull; but yet, 
even now, he is impressed by the earth-serenity of 
what he sees through earth-distance, or by the 
phenomena of earth-beauty . . . wait! . . . His 
larger appreciation and understanding will come 
when God touches his mortal eye, and he awakens 
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XCI 

JULY 31ST, LATER MORNING. 

My beloved husband! ... I am writing to you 
again and continuing the Message! You will 
know, as you did in the first Message, when this 
second inspirational Writing is over. I will con- 
tinue! ... I have told you that we sense the 
condition of other spiritual planes and Mansions. 
What we sense is always a place of higher love 
and harmony, for which we, of this plane, are 
unprepared. There is no restlessness to advance. 
We feel, if you may understand, a certain happi- 
ness in seeming finality of the present; and yet 
with this there exists the definite realization and 
surety of the still more glorified conditions of our 
future states and existences. 

Giving and replenishment! This might be 
called our activity in these places. As we give, the 
quality of subsequent emanations that we absorb 
is of higher spiritual value. As we give out again, 
what we disseminate has greater spiritual signifi- 
cance, because our own spiritual essence and con- 
sciousness have become more advanced. And so 
we advance, with the individual happiness not to 
be expressed, in each act of giving and receiving. 
And this is the scheme of Heavenly progression. 

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XCII 

JULY 31ST, LATER MORNING. 

Again I hear you ask of spiritual companion- 
ship! I have written of this. Any Mansion will 
supply such element. Through spiritual laws 
affinity exists with affinity, like seeks like. And 
yet there is individuality of spirit-identity in the 
Heavenly Mansions. Let the mortal of earth 
understand there is no such quality as weariness 
or monotony here, such as one finds too frequently 
in earth-mansions, where like is bound to unlike 
by the conventions of Church, law and custom; 
where existence is endured, shackled often and 
hopeless. Such is not the law of spiritual places. 
Even on the lowest of spiritual planes there is 
harmony of type, though not so exalted. These, 
through God's love, are evolving toward the 
higher places. 

The individuality of those about me is marked. 
I recognize them through visual identity, which 
I have explained, and I sense their personality 
through the emanations they throw out, which is 
their language and an expression of their spirit- 
consciousness. We sense, too, the improvement 
in the quality of these emanations in any spirit- 
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too long a time (earth language!), such a spirit- 
identity is stimulated by us, and through the love 
that abides here. There are no laggards in these 
Heavenly places ! It is against the law of God- 
Energy. But neither is their restlessness nor 
hurry. An all-pervading Heavenly serenity, a 
quality not to be explained to the earth-man, 
would make this impossible. . . . 



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XCIII 

JULY 31ST, LATER AFTERNOON. 

I am with you again! . . . Write now through 
my guidance! . . . You are asking about the 
spheres of higher spiritual importance than my 
own. I can only say that I sense the conditions 
of these as places where harmony and unity and 
understanding of all the spirit-identities are in a 
higher state of development than on my own 
plane. But there are constantly surrounding 
emanations which impart to us our finality for 
these higher conditions of spiritual consciousness 
and happiness. We have no doubts. I have told 
you that is one of the characteristics of all the 
spiritual planes: a conviction so satisfying, that 
happiness is created, no matter what the degree of 
any spirit-plane may be in its relation to those of 
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XCIV 

In the mortal, even the most carefully nurtured, 
faith has its little times of waning and withering; 
but here after the "passing over," even of those 
who have not lived up to earth's duties and their 
inward monitor of guidance, a positive conviction, 
flowing from a seeming personal influence of Love 
and Tenderness, overwhelms and lovingly com- 
forts. It is God's Law and Love, even to him 
who has been an earth-transgressor and has been 
ruthless to his ideals. Such a one will suffer in 
his remorse on these spiritual planes. But the 
ultimate hope for a condition of future blessed- 
ness in higher places would be implanted in his 
consciousness from the first moment of his 
spiritual awakening. . . . Do not write more this 
evening. 



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xcv 

AUGUST 1ST, EARLY AFTERNOON. 

My beloved husband, I come to you again so 
that, through your earth-instrumentation, the 
Message may be continued! ... I will write to 
you of the trees and flowers as they exist in these 
spiritual places. You have often experienced 
and have recently expressed the idea of the dig- 
nity and impressiveness of the tree as it appears 
on the earth-surface, not alone in isolation, but in 
the deep mass-effects, where from a refreshing 
green the foliage loses itself in deeper shadow or 
the farther darkened and depressing gloom, that 
might be the foreboding of some inner hidden 
tragedy . . . the earth-tree, the symbol of sturdi- 
ness and character, ever spreading outward and 
reaching upward with its own peculiar dignity! 

In the first Message I have spoken of the earth- 
tree as the symbolic figure of the human course 
of life. I shall now speak of its importance in 
these places of ever-abiding serenity . . . wait! 
. . . To the earth-man it appears in its steadfast- 
ness as a suggestion. To us, in these spirit-places, 
it breathes a special message and sends out special 
emanations as the messenger of unfluctuating will 
and determination. This is its characteristic; and 

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its language of virile force permeates these places, 
and helps to give a stability of action to all created 
life. It has been so endowed by the God-Love 
and Energy, and its importance to all spirit- 
creation, including the spirit-identities of mortal 
man, is of primary importance. 



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XCVI 

I have told you before that we learn of other 
creations of spirit-life; and through the tree- 
creation our wills are strengthened to do and to 
create and to function so that our spirit-existence 
may be one of progress. Can you not see, as your 
mortal consciousness awakens to this statement, 
how man only, in his egotism, is superior to other 
creation? I have told you of the modest grasses 
in the previous Message and how we learn humil- 
ity through them . . . the gentle act of consider- 
ing the individual as not so important as to mini- 
mize the usefulness and characteristics of another 
individual to the superior glory of his own. 



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XCVII 

So the tree-creation gives force to the individual 
identity of these spirit-places. It is not the force 
of usurpation, as it is the force for accomplish- 
ment, before which, like a tiny lantern, there 
glimmers always a guiding light that will lighten 
the way and tell of dangers. And that light is 
love, that makes the baser earth-qualities impos- 
sible in these abiding places of serenity and unity, 
where individual usurpation is unknown, and the 
cruel heel of earth-ambition never lacerates and 
mutilates and rides with arrogant intolerance over 
the shattered hopes of others. 



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XCVIII 

So from the trees (and can you sense the 
awakening idea in yourself, my Beloved?) comes 
the great driving wheel of spirit-stability, given to 
them by the God-Energy, and reflexively given 
to us, the spirit-identities of mortal-worlds, and 
to all types of creative spirit-life here. . . . Let 
mortal-man of earth give a new thought to the 
creation of earth, other than that of man, a new 
recognition and dignity. For here, on the spirit- 
planes, they give to us, with a new spiritual power, 
characteristics that will sweep us ever onward to a 
higher spiritual awakening. ... I have told you! 



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XCIX 

Trees are here in isolation as on the earth- 
plane, often one springing from the green expanse 
of spiritual grasses, the prototype of so many you 
have seen in earth-life. Only frequently the ex- 
panse of such green seems endless (earth-word!) ; 
and from this expanse there come the serenity- 
emanations. And as these places seem boundless, 
so does the serenity seem all-pervading. . . . The 
tree, then, of these places, may stand in isolation; 
or sometimes in little families, happily together; 
or in larger companies, not always of a kind, but 
always happy; or sometimes in masses of such 
extent that it might be best exemplified by the 
term earth-world. These are the infinite forests 
of the spiritual places, trees that have existed on 
mortal worlds, and here again have their spiritual 
appearance and life. 

But because they give especially the quality of 
forcefulness to other spiritual essence, it does not 
mean that they are what the earth-man would call 
forbidding or intolerant. Sometimes a mortal of 
the earth-world, whose chief characteristics are 
force and power of action, may not be kind or 
considerate. As this spirit-creation of trees gives 
out its especial characteristic, so it has absorbed 

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other traits from other creations which will give it 
harmony, and not isolation, in these spirit places. 
There is no isolated creation here, either in its own 
consciousness considered so, or in the conscious- 
ness of other creations. God's love has ordained 
this. 



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I sense how strange to you is the idea of the 
spirit-identity of man receiving spirit-dominance 
from what mortal-man has considered spiritless. 
I have explained this minutely in the former Mes- 
sage; and as man will realize more and more the 
importance and living essence of other creations, 
"he will live for others," which term is earth-lan- 
guage usually means to make other mortals 
happy ; but as this Writing means ( coming from a 
higher spirit-influence than my own), the term, 
' 'he will live for others," will include all types and 
kinds of mortal-creation, and he will be as con- 
siderate and unselfish to them as he will try to be 
in his highest idealism to his brother-man. 



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CI 



AUGUST 2ND. 

It is I, Anne Simon, your beloved Wife, writing 
from the higher spiritual revelation to you. . . . 
I will write of the flower-profusion that occurs in 
these spirit -places ! They all represent the spirit- 
essence of the flower-life of earth and other mor- 
tal-worlds. You of the earth, when you "pass 
over," will recognize such as were on the earth- 
world; but others of other mortal-worlds will be 
strange to you. Those that you have known will 
have their own spirit-color, not to be described by 
earth-colors, and though these spirit-colors will be 
strange to you, it will not keep you from knowing 
the flowers of your own earth-world. You will 
visualize their spiritual colors by your spirit-vision, 
and at the same time will remember their earth- 
appearances. It is a double process of conscious- 
ness which becomes possible to those of the spirit- 
places. To the mortal such a double conscious- 
ness would be bewildering. To us it is a natural 
process of these spirit-places. ... So the flowers 
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CII 



It may be, on the mortal planes, man has be- 
come more aware of flower-impression as a definite 
stimulation than through any other form of crea- 
tion except man, his mortal-brother. While their 
stimulation is yet abstract on the earth-world, yet 
the mood-awakening for gentleness, kindness, and 
the unfolding sense for delicate form, for grace, 
for color-stimulation is immediate. And so even 
on the earth arid other mortal-planes the flower- 
life is a subtle, but yet acutely stimulative factor 
to refine the spirit of the man-creation, while yet 
struggling with earth-cares, temptations, and 
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cm 

Besides the emanations which the spirit-identi- 
ties send from spirit-planes for man-regeneration 
and preparation for his later spiritual Mansions, 
the elements of nature, on the mortal planes, and 
art (which is a dream between two worlds!) are 
the most stimulative. And in nature, as I have 
written in this letter, the flower-life is most preg- 
nant and impregnating. Still the man of earth 
does not recognize this flower-emanation as a lan- 
guage for his spirit-stimulation. He will evolve 
to this. 



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CIV 

In the spiritual planes the influence of flower- 
life, on even the spirit-identity of mortal-man, is 
recognized and lovingly accepted. For here we 
understand them as a direct personality, the con- 
stant communion with which will accentuate those 
spirit-traits that bring us ever onward to still 
higher planes than those in which we exist at the 
present time. They have been given natures of 
unusual sensitiveness and fineness, through God's 
favor, that are allied to the God-Love, and that 
show themselves outwardly through color, deli- 
cacy, line and grace. They stimulate in the other 
spirit-souls those characteristics of spirit-life that 
are the golden veins of these places: kindness, 
humility, serenity, beauty-creation. They create 
the trailing tendril-vines of the spirit-nature that 
lovingly reach out and enfold others of the spirit- 
world, and not the selfish tendrils that encircle 
themselves. 



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CV 



So, again I tell you, that as God has endowed 
the spirit-tree as a symbol of force to be reflex - 
ively received by us, the spirit-souls, so He has en- 
dowed the spiritual flower-life with a quality of 
the God-love to which we open our spirit- 
consciousness for its caressing and vitalizing be- 
neficence (there is much tenderness comes from 
the flower-emanations!). So again let the man of 
earth realize the significance of other creation on 
the earth-world besides his own. He will learn 
and be uplifted by these, even as he passes the 
portal that leads to his first Mansion in these 
Heavenly places. ... I have told you! 



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CVI 

AUGUST 2ND, LATER EVENING. 

My beloved husband, write! ... I have told 
you of the special emanations that the trees and 
the flowers of these infinite planes, in the mass, 
and also in isolation, give to us. I have partic- 
ularized here, but I have generalized before when 
I told you that each creation sends out its emana- 
tions through these spirit-planes, which reach also 
the spirit-essences and identities of the man-type 
who has "passed over" from mortal worlds, the 
earth-world and others. But besides these, I have 
already explained there are the direct God- 
Energy and God-Love-Emanations that come 
from the Innermost God-Heart, and also from the 
Christ, who moves through our spirit-place and 
those of other spirit-planes. The spirit-essence of 
tree and flower-life is disseminating its special 
characteristics just as we are doing, we of this 
special spirit-mansion where I now am. 



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CVII 

We, the spirit-type of man in this place, I have 
told you, have our characteristics. They are those 
especially of imagination and art-creation which 
on the earth-plane had different media for ex- 
pression, as the tone-combinations and melodic and 
harmonic treatment of the musician; the color- 
combinations, with line-development, of the 
painter; the word-fantasie of the poet; and the 
spirit of the sculptor, showing itself in form, 
chiselled in white, massive stone-block. Such 
spirits are mostly our companions here. The 
Mansion is an exalted one of our plane, as I have 
told you, the exalted place of imagination in these 
places. 



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CVIII 

So our special function is to create. In this we 
do not differ so much from the other Mansions; 
for even, on the lowest planes, the spirits of these 
planes are doing this, but in a more elementary 
way. We, of our Mansion, having begun the 
stimulation of imagination on the earth-plane or 
the other mortal-planes (for we are not all of the 
earth-plane!) assume a more developed existence 
and functioning in our Mansion than those of 
some other Mansions. And as we especially have 
our place and exert our special influence through 
our special gift and characteristics, so also with 
the tree and flower -life that is here; and so with 
each kind of creation. We are, however, each 
stimulating the other kinds, and taking to our- 
selves from them what is needful for the perfect 
balance of our spirit-personalities. 



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CIX 

AUGUST 3RD, MORNING. 

I am with you again! ... I will write of the 
inner-consciousness of spiritual-man. Have no 
doubts! A calm impassive condition should per- 
vade you! ... In mortal-man of the earth-plane 
the cultivation of the inner spirit, which is the ele- 
ment that comes to our planes, is yet but feebly 
stimulated. Man's materiality, his love for gain 
and accumulation, and the laudable stimulus to 
provide comfort and living for his children give 
him little time and wish for the cultivation of that 
beneficent and golden gate of serenity. 



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CX 



For on this spiritual foundation is buiided, 
and rises like a bubble from a serene water- 
surface, the characteristic of introspection, which 
is a delicate gateway of precious, twining gold- 
strands, through which flow the emanations of 
Heavenly and uplifting gifts ... a spiritual link 
which binds the soul of earth with the soul of 
Heaven . . . And wait! . . . Serenity! ... a 
necessary condition to be encouraged so that the 
Angel-faces may shine through the dream-portal 
of introspection, a portal so fine and sensitive! 
How quietly it opens! The illumination of 
Heavenly places is before you! And how quietly 
this enters and inundates! Introspection is the 
earth-call, a gentle call for the Heavenly visions 
to unfold, 



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CXI 

But then, as I have told you, there are the 
"demands"! Of these I have written. A gate- 
way of majestic power . . . the "demands"! 
They require a moment of silence and serenity for 
their efficacy . . . only a light soil (Introspection 
requires a deeper and profounder preparation!) ! 
And after the moment of preparation the faculty 
of will should be exerted, so that each fiber of the 
mighty material of the majestic portal of the 
"demands" will be doubly tensed. And when such 
"demands" are insistently and firmly made for the 
earth-virtues, that find in spiritual planes their 
higher continuation and development, the emana- 
tions that we scatter and send to mortals of dif- 
ferent planes will lodge and abide. Such 
"demands" should be made many times . . . 
many times . . . between the rising of the sun 
and the setting of the sun, as seen from the 
earth-plane! . . . This is prayer! I have told you! 



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CXII 

The "demands" are the way of power to attract 
Heaven's beneficence. In the act of introspection 
the inflowing virtues sometimes linger before its 
portal, and may even return to the place from 
whence they came without entering. But if the 
"demands" are firmly given out, our emanations 
will surely enter; for they are ever surrounding 
earth-creation, and patiently waiting for the call 
which is impregnated by wish and will. ... So 
the mortal consciousness is nurtured for the 
higher places! 



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CXIII 

AUGUST 3RD, LATER MORNING. 

I write to you of spirit-consciousness! . . . 
While on the earth-plane and other mortal worlds 
the will is the dominant element to encourage a 
higher spirituality, in these places of our abode 
the God-Element of Love is the dominating 
quality that leads us to higher progression. It 
would seem to be God's law for the mortal, that 
the germinating spiritual forces must be encour- 
aged by the faculty of will. The earth-vision is 
but dimly unfolded; and yet for the earth- and 
other mortal-man, even with the future for him 
clouded by an obscure faith, his consciousness 
must seize on what is given him, and his future 
cultivation must be wrought from the imperfect 
tools of earth which he uses, aimlessly often. The 
obstacles of earth are part of man's discipline. 
He will overcome these as his spirit evolves. 



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CXIV 

Here, in these spirit-places, the element of the 
God-Love permeates and stimulates . . . Wait! 
. . . There is the definite will of spirit-conscious- 
ness of these places, and yet it is so surrounded 
and enveloped by the God-Love that this seems to 
be the element that carries us ever onward to 
higher degrees of progress, and not the will to 
arrive. On the mortal-plane the will is the stim- 
ulus; but here it is enclosed in a golden sheath of 
love, a sword of action that does not have to be 
drawn for action in the earth- way. The mortal 
must not misunderstand this statement. There is 
not the obliteration of will here (I have told you 
this comes from the God-Energy, and even re- 
flexively from other creations of the spirit-planes, 
as the trees!) ; but it is not the spiral, elastic 
spring of action as on mortal-planes. 



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cxv 

The encircling arm of the God-Love tenderly 
leads us through the spirit-existences of many 
sequential planes of progress. In the spirit- 
consciousness self is obliterated. You remember 
how on the earth-plane the personal ambition 
drives the mortal to what he thinks are material 
and personal heights. But such a one, when he 
has "passed over," will find himself in abysmal 
chasms, with precipitous, rocky sides and jagged 
projections; and he must climb wearily and 
slowly again to the spiritual pinnacles of light. 

Here, in these places, there is a spiritual sense 
of gratitude (not to be explained to the mortal, as 
never having been experienced) that we are in 
the shadow and under the protection of a great 
Love-Element ... a gratitude that we are per- 
mitted to receive the beneficent, uplifting element 
of emanations and send these out again. We re- 
ceive that we may stimulate others, and with this 
consciousness our refreshment is constantly of 
finer and more exalted quality. 



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CXVI 

So the thought of self or personal ambition to 
reach higher places, quicker than other spirit- 
souls, does not exist here. We are conscious and 
happy in the consciousness of the unfolding types 
of other creations that give their emanations to us, 
besides the spirit-type of mortal-man; that the 
physical with its wearisome and struggling prob- 
lems has been lifted from us. The God-Tender- 
ness abides in us, and the Divine Compassion, as 
it touches so lovingly and personally, and yet so 
strongly, rests on our spiritual brows like a 
spiritual aura. Can you understand how impos- 
sible it is, my beloved husband, that with these 
glorified God-qualities about us we can be other 
than like Him? . . . My Beloved, you ask again! 
... I can only tell you: A Beneficent, Central, 
Germinating Force from which comes the God- 
Energy, ever vitalizing; and the God-Love, over- 
whelming, personal, glorified, even as it comes 
from the Central Essence of the God-Love! 



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CXVII 

AUGUST 4TH, MORNING. 

I am with you again, your beloved Wife, ever 
writing from the higher emanations that come 
through me. It is the wish that what I write 
should impress the mortal of earth, so that he may 
have a wider vision, a vision nearer that of the 
spiritual Mansions . . . that his attitude may be 
sympathetic toward his brother-mortal, and es- 
pecially toward all other kinds of mortal creation, 
which he has hitherto passed by in a casual and 
disinterested way. For as this one fact of the 
unity of all creation exists and becomes a con- 
viction to him (all creation, sealed and bound to- 
gether by God's Love!) his entire nature and con- 
sciousness will be quickened, and an opaque cur- 
tain will be lifted from his eye, not slowly, but 
with inspirational quickness. 

He will be delivered from one more earth- 
bondage, self -centered and egoistic, by which he 
has thought the man-creation of earth a superior 
type of creation. Deeper strata of earth-virtues 
will spring into immediate florescence: . . . kind- 
ness, humility, unselfishness, and an encircling 
love like a nimbus of light, which he will place 
about all types of earth-creation. 

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CXVIII 

AUGUST 4TH, LATER MORNING. 

Wait! ... I will write to you of spiritual 
hearing! ... In the spiritual vision of these 
places the possibility of ever seeing more, and 
with finer perception, ever develops. For with 
the absorption to each spirit-identity of the ever 
higher quality of emanations (which means prog- 
ress toward the higher spiritual planes!), the 
imagination of that spirit-identity is quickened 
and unfolds, so that its cup, as of always widening 
and opening flower-petals, may draw to itself 
more light and beauty. 

And it is equally so with spiritual hearing, of 
which I have told you but briefly in the first Mes- 
sage. I have explained, after the "passing over," 
that spiritual vision and spiritual hearing come to 
us; and that in the latter, peculiarly grateful and 
vitalizing harmonies reach our consciousness. I 
will now write further of this spiritual hearing. 



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CXIX 

On the earth-plane, music, through vibration- 
medium of different varieties, is arranged by 
man's ingenuity and urged by man's imagination 
into composition and form. Some of this is danc- 
ing like the butterfly in the sunshine; and some is 
somber and austere like the interior of a vast 
cathedral in the night-gloom; and others, again, 
fickle and phantasmal like the flight of the fire- 
fly; and another kind reaches deep into abysmal 
depths and brings to the surface, with grasps of 
an earth-giant, colossal firebrands of stimulation, 
or somber shadow-worlds. 

And as mortal-man is prepared in his soul and 
imagination, so will he receive this. Some types 
of imagination and development of the earth-man 
are only ready for the dainty, superficial butterfly, 
and others have evolved so they may seize the 
colossal firebrand of stimulation, or absorb the 
strange shadow-immensities, expressed through 
sound. . . . Wait! ... no more now! 



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cxx 

AUGUST 4TH, LATE AFTERNOON. 

Such music as is heard in these places of spirit- 
life will be strangely beautiful to those souls who 
have "passed over" and just awakened from that 
intermediary state of semi-conscious dreaming 
(with an always surrounding feeling of security 
and a peculiar satisfying personal happiness, re- 
sulting from an ever-permeating tenderness and 
personal love), when the spiritual vision and 
spiritual hearing first receive their stimulation. 

It is difficult to explain in earth-language. It 
is music that one hears reminiscently, like in the 
far distance. And even to me, whose earthly ear 
was so finely attuned to exact pitch and subtle 
gradation of harmonic combinations, the impres- 
sion was one that aroused my spirit-consciousness 
to exaltation (no word ... it is enveloped in 
serenity!), and a spirit-happiness and gratitude in 
the consciousness that my spirit-soul should be 
permitted to have such spirit-stimulation. 

I do not say that all spirit-identities would be 
conscious of the impressions of my own, which, 
from natural gift in the earth-life and cultivation 
in that time, had received this unusual receptive 
possibility for the music of these places. 

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CXXI 

While such music impresses the spirit-life here 
in greater or less degree, all spirit-identities, as 
they develop, become more and more attuned to 
such hearing. For through its emanations, which 
reach us through the spiritual hearing or through 
our spiritual consciousness (the spiritual hearing 
dormant or willingly unused), it comes to us as 
an element of sound-language, an expression of 
the beauty and profundity of a composite art of 
those who send out their emanations through tone- 
expression. 

These sounds are not the result of the vibration 
of material things, as the musical instruments of 
the earth-world; but are the composite musical 
consciousness of all those artists of this type that 
have created in these spiritual planes. We, who 
are sensitive to musical sound and creation, may 
again be stimulated by such composite effect in 
all its immensity, or we may hear such parts of 
this composite sound-cosmos as would correspond 
to a symphonic movement or an entire symphony, 
with such tone-colors (only spiritualized!). And 
this the mortal will never understand, for its por- 
trayal, through words, becomes an impossibility to 
him. I cannot explain this to you. 

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CXXII 

And as this composite tonal-immensity is made 
up of the spiritual inspiration of identities of 
these spirit-places who have lived on many other 
mortal worlds besides the earth, one may grad- 
ually learn of the peculiar color-qualities of the 
instruments of other mortal worlds, by disinte- 
grating (not good!) and listening for those tonal- 
qualities that were foreign to us in the earth- 
world. The spirit-soul, at will, can so separate 
into their peculiar parts the inspirational labor 
(musical compositions) of those spirit-identities, 
who still follow their gifts here when they "pass 
over." 

Or we, of musical sensibility, instead of enjoy- 
ing with spirit-happiness and enjoyment the cos- 
mic-composition-bigness made by the spiritual 
law of spirit-music (or of separating such music 
into its music-identities and allowing ourselves, in 
an enhanced way from earth, to absorb), may take 
to our spiritual selves a glint of such music, like a 
floating strand of gold, not seen but heard. 



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CXXIII 

And so what the artist, in music, and also 
the composer originate here in their spirit- 
consciousness in these spirit-planes is thrown out- 
ward as emanations, and is absorbed into the com- 
posite musical cosmos (it cannot be seen like the 
spirit-waters or the color-clouds; but we know it 
exists, for we hear it!), and reaches all spirit- 
identity as they are prepared to hear. If his 
earth-talent has been little, he will hear little at 
first, but will evolve. . . . Wait! . . . Again, I re- 
peat: What we hear, we hear with spiritual hear- 
ing. The sounds and combinations of sounds 
heard with our spiritual hearing are what have 
passed as emanations from those, on the spirit 
planes, that have created music. It is from their 
consciousness, is absorbed into the music-cosmos 
(there is no word!) of these places, and reaches us 
through our spiritual hearing! 



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CXXIV 

AUGUST 5TH, EARLY AFTERNOON. 

The day of my rebirth into these places of 
serenity and glow and stimulation of happiness, 
not to be explained! I have been with you! You 
heard my manifestation! It was I, Anne, in near 
proximity, to throw about you my love, a word 
that is all-inclusive in its stimulation and benefi- 
cence. I have been with you in proximity con- 
tinually during the day (which is an earth-word 
and means nothing to the spirit-life of the places 
where we exist!). I have told you our conscious- 
ness does not divide time into segments. Even 
our advanced spirit-planes are higher states of 
spirit-consciousness. 

I will continue to write as I am commanded to 
do, and continue this, the second Message to you. 
You ask whether there will be more than this 
Message. This knowledge will be unfolded to 
you, but not at this time. 



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cxxv 

Write: I have told you in the first Message 
that what is created in the spirit-consciousness of 
the artist-type in these places of serenity is 
thrown out as emanations and enters the spirit- 
essence of spirit-beauty that permeates and fills 
the spirit-realms, losing its individualism and 
identity. So this occurs and it is sent into the 
spirit-cosmos. 

But in the first Message I did not complete the 
explanation which occurs in this present Writing, 
namely, that such absorbing of what is thrown 
out as individual creation into this great cosmic 
immensity may be separated again by us, the 
spirit-identities, into its own individual creations. 
I have explaned this in writing of the music of 
these spiritual places. 

So individualism of art is not absorbed or lost 
in finality. It is absorbed into the great cosmic- 
entity of these places, but may be seen or heard 
again as it was created in the consciousness of 
spirit-identity; but not seen or heard as the mortal 
sees or hears, but through spiritual seeing or 
hearing which may be likened to the earth-quality 
of imagination or inner-consciousness. 



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CXXVI 

AUGUST 5TH, JLATER. 

I wish to write in greater length of another 
phase of music as it is heard here. We may 
absorb for our enjoyment and stimulation the 
creations or musical compositions (earth words!) 
of those whose similar and accentuated gifts func- 
tion here. We hear such compositions in our 
spiritual inner-consciousness through spiritual 
hearing (not all spirit identities to the same de- 
gree or with the same interest, though all are 
growing to this). We also hear the interpreta- 
tions (spiritually touched by the influences of 
these places) of those artists who are here with us 
of earth and other mortal-planes, who did not 
create their own compositions, but interpreted the 
musical works of others. 

We can separate such interpretations and enjoy 
those that we wish to hear, or we may close our 
spiritual ears to those that reach us as not finely 
attuned to our musical culture and fineness, as 
we would wish. We may hear at will such works 
in the tonal-color of the earth-instruments we cared 
for, but always changed to a spiritual quality of 
tone, not to be explained. We may hear individ- 
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earth, strange to us first; but when they have 
come from mortal worlds, higher developed than 
that of the earth, we soon recognize these as being 
more stimulative to our sense of beauty and fine- 
ness than earth-instruments. 



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CXXVII 

So the genius of the earth functions his art in 
these spirit-places. . . . No, the musician would 
not play or perform in these places, except in his 
spiritual consciousness. These elements will leave 
him as emanations, bearing the distinctive type of 
his spirit-personality, imagination and talent. The 
musician of earth may so create in his inner con- 
sciousness, hearing tone without producing this. 
But such creation reaches only himself. In these 
spirit-places it leaves the artist and first enters 
the great composite cosmic-world of sound, where 
it may be separated at will and by the wish of the 
different spirit-identities into individually inter- 
preted musical life. ... I have told you! 



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CXXVIII 

AUGUST 6TH, AFTERNOON. 

My beloved husband, I am here, Anne! . . . 
Write! . . . And, as with music, so with those 
other forms of art-creation that come from the 
artist-souls of these places of progress, about 
which is, to the mortal, the not understandable 
spirit-quality of serenity. These art-creations of 
different types are all projected into the cosmic- 
beauty of the spirit-planes, and so impress in their 
cosmic entirety of beauty. Or they may be indi- 
vidualized again and separated into whatever in- 
dividual art-creation they represent of the spirit- 
consciousness of the spirit-identity, and so be en- 
joyed and become a stimulus to those spirit-souls 
who may be prepared to enjoy them. Or again, 
as in music, just a detail of such creation may add 
a spirit-happiness ... as the vision of one flower- 
petal of earth, or an earth-leaf, or a snow-crystal, 
separated from its great white drift-mass. 



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To those who come to these spirit-places in a 
consciousness of materiality such stimulation is 
progressive; but the constantly ever-surrounding 
element of art-creation compels the attention of 
such unimaginative spirit-identities; and by the 
ever present and surrounding emanation of this 
element it gradually reaches the inner and finer 
receptive place of this type of spirit-life, and such 
become more and more receptive. And as they 
receive, so they progress towards the higher 
planes. I have told you that the intellectual 
faculty is also stimulated in these places, but its 
uses lie rather dormant; for, as I have explained, 
it is the intuitive, the imaginative faculty of spirit- 
life that is quickened, and upon this depends the 
ever widening spirit-progress and vision of the 
spirit-souls. 



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So the mortal of intellect of the earth and other 
mortal-worlds, with feeling and intuition dormant, 
will be born again in these places, even as the 
earth-infant is born. And the artisan and 
laborer will no more work with hands and tools, 
but will be given the opportunity, which maybe he 
did not possess in mortal worlds, of absorbing the 
new world, to him, of spiritual fineness and 
beauty. The legal minds of earth are meant to 
solve for the earth-man his acrimonious differ- 
ences. There is harmony here. It is the harmony 
of spirit-planes. The tranquillity and love that 
surround this state of harmony can never be un- 
derstood by the mortal. So tell the mortal of 
exalted earth-intellect not to make this intellect 
his god. For when he arrives in these places it 
will be dethroned. 



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CXXXI 

Let him, as he sits solemnly giving his earth- 
judgment, cast his eye lovingly on the stray sun- 
beams that flicker past, in which there are the 
dancing mote-worlds; or let his faint imagination 
be aroused as he looks into the face of the one he 
would judge. And as he sees beyond this into 
the human heart that may beat even more hu* 
manly than his own ... if he sees there, through 
the rancorous weeds that may have grown, a little 
spirit-flower, and if he will give pity as well as a 
new hope to such, he will, in spite of his calling, 
come to one of our higher places. For, in the hard 
soil of legal intellect, there are growing with him 
the seeds of love that will blossom. 



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CXXXII 

AUGUST 7TH, MORNING. 

I am with you again this morning! . . . Write! 

. . We on these spirit-planes have the peculiar 
happiness of sensing the future with confidence. 

. . I mean for us the future and higher planes. 
But I have also told you that our present state of 
spiritual bliss is sufficient and all-satisfying, al- 
though we are aware of the higher development 
in future spiritual consciousness. . . . Wait! . . . 
We are progressing and realize this (I cannot ex- 
plain its happiness!). The emanations of the 
higher planes reach us, and we absorb according to 
our spiritual possibilities. Many of these pass us 
by because we are not ready for receptance. But 
their very presence stimulates as to our future. 

So when I write that we sense such future 
states, but cannot describe their conditions, you 
will understand. If we are not ready in our spirit- 
consciousness to accept these higher emanations as 
they pass through the planes, because we do not 
understand them, or rather they are above our 
spiritual heights of the present, you will under- 
stand how we might be even unhappy if we ex- 
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them. The stimulation would be excessive. These 
future places, for us, are regulated by the law of 
preparation that exists for them ... I have 
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CXXXIII 

AUGUST 7TH, LATER MORNING. 

I am with you still! . . . Write! ... I have 
shown throughout the first and the second Mes- 
sages how inadequate is the earth-language to 
express the spiritual states of our spiritual con- 
sciousness. Earth-happiness and serenity, in vari- 
ous degrees, are recognized by the earth-mortals. 
Similar states of these spiritual planes I can but 
express in earth-language to you, which, however, 
does not convey the exaltation (again, no word!) 
of these spiritual states on my own spiritual 
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CXXXIV 

So in the higher spiritual planes than my own 
I cannot understand, in a similar way, the exalta- 
tion of those places. What I cannot understand 
as a spiritual-essence (but can sense, as even 
the earth-man may sense a higher happiness 
than the earth-happiness), I can not, of course, 
unfold to the mortals of earth. If I were 
from a higher spiritual plane than the one on 
which I exist, the more exalted states of spirit- 
world might have been revealed in these Messages. 
While what is given me to write to you is from the 
higher emanations, more definite unfolding than 
my own spirit-consciousness could become aware 
of could not be imparted from me. So what ap- 
pears in these Messages, my beloved husband, 
through you to the mortals of the earth-plane, is 
but a small part of the life and conditions of the 
higher spirit-identities, higher and more exalted 
than my own, and on those planes where the God- 
Love is felt in greater radiance, because the 
spirits of those places are prepared to receive this. 



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Again, I draw about the mortals of the earth- 
world and all creation of this earth-world (aU, 
all are my beloved brothers of whatever creation, 
pulsating and throbbing with God's love and 
energy!). ... I draw about them with my spirit- 
ual finger the circle of my love, I, one of God's 
spirit-souls. I place my spiritual hands over each 
one: each mortal, flower, grass-blade, and bless 
them and stimulate them all for the higher love 
and unity that will bring them to the sheltering 
love of these spirit-mansions. 

And so, my Beloved, may the second Message 
reach those that await the unfolding of its spirit- 
message. . . . 

My Beloved, I have told you! ... I draw 
about you the personal circle of the personal love! 




^n_ 



ANNE SIMON. 



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